On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 09:09:07AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 4) dpkg should know about these files and NOT screw with them in the course > of a package upgrade, and not remove them unless "--purge" is specified > (hence they are a conffile by the definition given by Dale above, and > should probably be provided in zero-length versions for the sake of the > inital install) If you don't provide them and don't mention them in conffiles, then dpkg won't know about them at all, so it can't clobber them. You can remove them yourself if the postinst is called with purge. Isn't this a better solution than calling the files conffiles, even though they aren't? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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