Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:53:33PM +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> > I have updated it, but you haven't written your update correctly. It
> > only works when you install it and not when updating the package.
>
> /etc/init.d/binfmt-support is a configuration file. By design (of
> Debian, not particularly of my package), changes you make to
> configuration files are preserved. If you made a change to this file,
> then dpkg will ask you whether you want to keep it or replace it with
> the packaged file; if it's unable to ask you for some reason, then it
> will default to keeping your locally-changed version.
>
> If the file had not been changed locally, then dpkg would have
> automatically replaced it with the packaged version.
Wasnt changed locally.
> It would have been considerable effort for me to arrange things such
> that it only worked on fresh install and not on upgrade (in the case
> where the file was not changed locally), and I did not do so. You're
> free to look at the source to confirm this if you don't believe me.
The problem is update-rc.d and not the real file. Update-rc.d will not catch
changes to that line if there are already links inside /etc/rc?.d/ for that
script. See for example bug #548306
> dpkg should have left the packaged version of the file on disk as
> /etc/init.d/binfmt-support.dpkg-dist. I suggest that you compare it with
> your version and apply the changes. If there is no such file present,
> then you should be able to force dpkg to apply the packaged version
> using the --force-confnew option.
This file was never changed by me or by an automatic script
Best regards,
Peter
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