On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:43:33PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> At any rate, the indicated directory is in the area owned by the
> package management system, and there is no /var/lib/zope/xxx/
> substitute available.
> What's the proper way to handle this situation?
dpkg won't actually get upset if you add files to a directory it owns
(well, it'll print a warning if it ever tries to remove a directory).
> This seems like a fairly general problem, so I've cc'd the list. Help
> accepted from all quarters!
Another way would be to package the modules in question.
> While I'm on the subject of Zope, policy, and general issues, I also
> wanted to configure Zope so it would start manually, rather than
> automatically as the package has it. I know I could just track down
> the scripts in the different start up directories (or perhaps use a
> utility whose name escapes me right now). But again, I wonder if
> that's proper.
There's a reason why the /etc/init.d scripts are all conffiles :-) .
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