Re: conffiles
Hi
Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the
poped up question when overwriting config files
(during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate
the packge OR is there a debhelper command (dh_..) that will trigger that
prior to calling dpkg-deb
thanks
Zvi Dubitzky
Email:dubi@il.ibm.com
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Date: 31/08/2010 03:03
Subject: 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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