Re: conffiles no longer needed except ...
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:50:47AM +0100, Willi Mann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have no idea how to properly handle the following situation: My
> package logwatch previously had all their configuration files in
> /etc/logwatch/conf. They were marked as conffiles so dpkg was
> responsible for policy-compliant upgrading.
>
> However, since version 7.0 logwatch has a very cool(TM) way to specify
> the configuration. There is a directory default.conf, containing the
> proposed upstream configuration, there is an optional dist.conf dir
> containing the debian specific modifications (both in
> /usr/share/logwatch/), and there is /etc/logwatch/conf, containing
> optional site-specific modifications. (the ./conf is there because
> upstream allows local scripts to be put in ./scripts ..)
>
> Now the issue is, that all the old files in /etc/logwatch/conf are no
> longer needed, except if it was customized. If it was not customized,
> they should be removed, because they will interfere with the
> configuration by me and upstream, especially when some changes are needed.
>
> The question is: How should they be removed?
You should look at dpkg.org, where there are some useful conffile
examples, and maybe also play with udev, which I think helps to handle
this type of situation.
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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