Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:41:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 16:17 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:04:30PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > > I strongly suggest that software installation and software
> > > configuration are two distinctly separate tasks, and while the
> > > former should be handled by apt/dpkg, the latter should be left to
> > > the discretion of the sysadmin (pref. with an option to enable
> > > auto-configuration on a per-package basis).
> > >
> > > The bug is in apt/dpkg.
> >
> > Do you even know how those tools work?
>
> According to dpkg(8) those tools consider "unpacked" (but not
> configured) and "half-configured" as "package states". That tells me
> that package configuration is, indeed, part of apt/dpkg's domain.
> Please tell me if this isn't so, and I'll file a bug against dpkg
> manpage.
"Configured" means "postinst has been run, libraries have been set up,
etc." (see policy for the details). What individual packages choose to
do in their postinsts is up to them, and has nothing to do with dpkg and
most certainly nothing to do with apt.
> > ...It's up to individual packages, not the package management tools.
>
> I should have said it's a design bug in Debian as a whole,
I disagree in the general case, but you probably knew that. I think it
is an excellent feature of Debian that software is generally configured
correctly for me. When things go wrong, I file bugs.
> but OK then, have it your way: the bug is between some package
> maintainers' chairs and keyboards.
Yes. The right thing to do is to file bugs and educate them.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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