Re: preserving user changes while managing configuration files
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:53:14 +0100
Dennis van Dok <dennisvd@nikhef.nl> wrote:
> On 23-11-11 10:27, Joseph Gunn wrote:
>
> > A popular way of accomplishing the task is to support
> > "configuration subdirectories"
> >
> > It includes all "configuration files" in that directory. If you
> > publish a name that you will _never_ use then people can add that
> > one "as they wish".
>
> I'm not sure I'm getting the gist of your suggestion; do you mean the
> use of /etc/mypackage/conf.d/ or some such? I'm afraid this would
> require some heavy patching of the upstream code for reading
> configuration files.
Perhaps instead you could add a simple utility to make a master config
file out of several snippets in a directory. I think quite a few
packages do that. The only one I can think of just now is exim4 but
that's probably not a very good example because it's complex.
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