Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) spake thusly:
> after upgrading woody today, my XF86Config-4 file looks like:
> 
>    ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
>    #
>    # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make
>    # changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after
>    # the "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
>    
>    (all of the meat and potatoes of XF86Config-4.conf is snipped)
>    
>    ### END DEBCONF SECTION
> 
> 
> ok, my XF86Config-4 is all wrong now.  i need to edit this file.  if
> we're not supposed to edit between the "BEGIN DEBCONF" and "END
> DEBCONF", how the hell am i supposed to get a working XFree86 again?
> 
> is there a tool that allows us to change this file?

Your favourite text editor. What you want is to stop dexconf from
fscking it up again, and that's easy: make it chattr +i and read-only. 

Dima (still failing to righty apprehend the confusion of ideas that
led to creation of dexconf)