Re: how to override a conffile (not using dpkg-divert)?
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Not to mention the config file conflicts on the next upgrade, even if
> the DM changed only a single comment line. Plus there is no
> notification to run my postinst script again.
If this is a configuration package, then presumably you want
--force-confdef, so you don't need to rerun the postinst at all.
Or if you really want, you *can* divert them.[1,2] You just can't do that in
something that you upload to Debian.
Though you really probably want to be using puppet, chef, or something
similar instead.
> I have to make sure that the host configuration follows certain rules
> on all machines, e.g. for introducing signed host certificates for
> sshd, for the ldap/kerberos integration, etc.
Do whatever you want when you're the administrator! Just don't do this
in a package you're distributing when you're not.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages
2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476899
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