Re: SVN texlive (new) commit: r2454 - in texlive-new/trunk: . all/debian

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mit, 14 Feb 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@alioth.debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >   * Expand infrastructure to allow automatic generation of preinst
> >     code for config files. Config files are marked in the tpm2deb.cfg
> >     via a mapping;origdist;config-{copy,link};dest directive and
> >     in the preinst script of the respective package a line
> >         handle_config_file $configfile
> >     is added. Currently prefixed with a :, as the function has to be
> >     written [NP]
> 
> Thank you!  But shouldn't the name of the function reflect that it is
> only needed for the conffiles that we move around, not for possible new
> ones?  And shouldn't the moves be reverted in the failed-upgrade
> branches of (either) postrm or prerm?

Yes yes yes. I didn't have time to make everything polished, I only
wanted to get something done.

Concerning new/old config files: You are right, but this can be done
trivially ... in fact just done: I added a new directive "copy" (for the
mapping lines) which just copies without generating anything for the
maintainer scripts, and adapted the tpm2deb.cfg file:

mapping;texmf[^/]*/dvipdfm/config/config;config-link;/etc/texmf/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.cfg
mapping;texmf[^/]*/xdvi/xdvi.cfg;config-link;/etc/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg
mapping;texmf[^/]*/xdvi/XDvi;config-link;/etc/temxf/xdvi/XDvi
mapping;texmf[^/]*/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults;config-link;/etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults
mapping;texmf[^/]*/texdoctk/texdocrc.dat;config-link;/etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.dat
mapping;texmf[^/]*/metafont/misc/modes.mf;config-copy;/etc/texmf
#
# files found via kpse are just copied to /etc/texmf, directive
# configfile
mapping;texmf[^/]*/dvips/config/([^/]*);config-copy;/etc/texmf
# new config files, ie those which have not been config files till now
# and don't need special treatment
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex;copy;/etc/texmf
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/latex/pict2e/pict2e.cfg;copy;/etc/texmf
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/latex/contour/contour.cfg;copy;/etc/texmf
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/latex/config/color.cfg;copy;/etc/texmf
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg;copy;/etc/texmf
mapping;texmf[^/]*/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg;copy;/etc/texmf

For modes.mf above I am not sure ...

Now the rest should be done in the handle_config_file function a la
	case $cfgfile in
		old file1) ...
		old file2) ...
		...
	esac

And concerning prerm/postrm, should I add the 
	: handle_config_file_prerm/postrm/preinst/postinst $cfgfile
to all the 4 maintainer scripts? Any suggestions? It is a trivial
change.


Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>                    Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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