Re: preserving user changes while managing configuration files
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On 23-11-11 14:34, Arno Töll wrote:
> please mind the exact wording here. A "configuration file" is not
> the same as a "conffile" in Debian. Note, you are not allowed to
> modify a conffile at any time.
In the context of the maintainer scripts, I take it. ;-)
[...]
> If you want to modify the configuration of your package at
> installation time, you can do so by creating a configuration file
> your program expects _at installation time_ in the maintainer
> script but it must not be part of the package itself. To preserve
> user changes or do a graceful updates of your dynamically created
> configuration files, you may then manage your changes through ucf
> as Alexander suggested.
OK, thanks. Just to be clear, running dpkg-reconfigure *will* rewrite
the configuration if the admin never touched the configuration file,
is that correct?
I'm going to try my hand at using ucf now.
Cheers,
Dennis
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