Bug#292401: kdm_config override /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc which is a conffile

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

tags 292401 +upstream
forwarded 292401 http://bugs.kde.org/86650
thanks

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 10:30 pm, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:03:45PM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > To fix this, we'd need either to ship a kdmrc that conforms to the
> > kcontrol configurator's basic pattern, and so wouldn't be modified by
> > kcontrol more than is really necessary (could we make it keep the
> > comments, at least?), or else re-write the kdm module of kcontrol to
> > behave less stupidly, which would be quite an undertaking.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Perhaps this is a bug that would be useful forwarded upstream, hopefully
> the upstream authors just overlooked the fact that it mangles the config
> file and it is not a "feature". ;)
>
> Chris

I just checked and this bug was reported upstream a few months ago, and it 
sounds like a fix might be possible.

Josh