Re: : Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
>>"Greg" == Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
Greg> That would be clean, but it's not practical, in this case I'm
Greg> talking about kerberos and /etc/krb.conf and
Greg> /etc/krb.realms. These files are standardized upstream and we
Greg> can't start moving them around.
In that case, onse should serously consider if sumultaneous
installation is very useful, since the packages seem to be drop in
replacements. If it is indeed desirable to have more than one version
installed simultaneously, your solution below seems a decent
workaround.
Greg> I guess one option is to have a /etc/libfoo.conf.1 and then
Greg> link /etc/libfoo.conf to it in the postinst. Then it points to
Greg> the most recently installed configuration.
Yes. And one can look into alternatives, espescially for
heimedahl and MIT kerberos, rather than trying to have both packages
ahve the same conf file.
manoj
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