On 2005-03-22 John Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it be suitable to add some logic like this to the start of the
> install process? (I'm sorry I don't know exactly where this goes)
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[some sed magic, probably designed to move some local modifications
from the current updatdb.conf to new one shipped i the package]
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Hello,
Thanks for the effort but no, that's nor feasible. Editing
dpkg-conffiles (and there .new variants) is not allowed.
> Hopefully with this in a majority of cases there would not be a change in
> the PRUNEPATHS between the existing conf and the new install candidate so
> it would not have to interactively prompt for confirmation on changing a
> config file.
> Otherwise, would it be suitable to refer to a /etc/updatedb.conf.local
> along the lines of /etc/bind/named.conf using /etc/bind/named.conf.local ?
[...]
It is possible, but I am reluctant to do so. /etc/updatedb.conf is a
small file (only 10 effective lines) with simple syntax, so merging in
ones local changes from time to time is not that bad.
cu andreas
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