Re: Removing former conffiles
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Bas Wijnen <shevek@fmf.nl> wrote:
>>
>> > The question is, how do I solve this? Should I forcefully remove
>> > the conffile before calling update-rc.d? It feels really bad to
>> > remove files from /etc in maintainer scripts, but perhaps it's the
>> > right thing to do...
>
>> - if the file is unchanged, remove it
> Even changed files are removed on purge.
Yes, of course - I should have been more clear. What I wrote is done in
preinst.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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