Modification of configuration files in postinst

[Roland Gruber <post@rolandgruber.de>]

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Hi all,

I got a piuparts bug (582020) report because my package
(ldap-account-manager) changes configuration files when running postinst.

E.g. it asks the user via debconf to specify a master configuration
password. This is then written to the configuration file. Even if the
debconf dialog is not displayed postinst writes the config file (with a
default value).

This is the postinst code:

db_get "ldap-account-manager/passwd"
passwd="$RET"
perl -pi -e "s/password: .*/password: $passwd/g"
/etc/ldap-account-manager/config.cfg


Is there any way to mark a configuration file as unchanged after package
installation? Any other solutions?

Thanks in advance for your help.


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Best regards

Roland
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