Re: Removing obsolete conffiles on upgrade

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Fre, 09 Feb 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I have to get rid of the old conffile somehow (I formerly had two files
> foo and bar. In the new package version, the content of foo has been
> included in bar, so I want to get rid of foo, otherwise I get clashes).

Well the optimum solution is the following (all in preinst):

- If foo was unchanged from the original version (check md5sum) then
  just remove it
- otherwise *try* to merge the changes in foo into bar.
- if this is not possible, warn the admin that he has to manually update
  the settings in bar according to what he has done in foo.

Best wishes

Norbert

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