Re: force-confnew (was: Document correct buildd chroot setup somewhere?)
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:58:31PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Kurt Roeckx (kurt@roeckx.be) [100405 13:54]:
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:16:35PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > >
> > > 3. dpkg.cfg:
> > >
> > > For >= squeeze we automatically write "force-confnew" to
> > > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf.d/force-confnew on each entering of the chroot.
> >
> > We really shouldn't be doing this. Instead we should fix the
> > bugs. #576508 is probably part of the problem.
>
> I agree that 576508 is a bug, and I think I'll just fix that one for
> buildd.d.o-packages now.
>
> However, I still think we should use force-confnew, because conffiles
> shouldn't contain valuable changes in the chroots. Why do you think
> it's bad to use force-confnew?
It hides bugs.
Kurt
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