Re: conffiles
Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote:
>> I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the
>> configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten
>> when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the
>> package config files are overwriting the existing config files at /etc
>> without popping out a question.
> You should never need to list files in /etc as conffiles, as they're
> detected and a conffiles written out at package build time (because
> Policy says all files in /etc are conffiles).
This is only true if you're using debhelper, and from previous messages I
believe the original poster is learning packaging by taking a more manual
approach.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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