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Re: conffiles



Zvi Dubitzky <DUBI@il.ibm.com> writes:

> 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

Yes, create DEBIAN/conffiles listing all the conffiles in the package.

> OR is there a debhelper command (dh_..) that will trigger that prior to
> calling dpkg-deb

dh_installdeb handles creating of conffiles if you're using debhelper
(compatibility level v3 or higher).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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