On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:32:42PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:01:21AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > But they ARE conffiles! One of the reasons they're in /etc is so that > > the system administrator can modify them if desired. > > No, they are maybe config files, but they cannot be conffiles, since > they are not text files.
Do you have a reference for this? I see nothing in policy to suggest that conffiles must be text files. Other than the inflexibility of using diff, the conffile management in dpkg is appropriate. > > I'm sorry dpkg doesn't offer a way to specify a diff program usefully; > > infocmp would work fine. > > That is why you should not mark them as conffiles but handle them > manually with a script that provide a way to edit and diff them. You don't edit them. You build from alternate source, presumably provided by whatever oddball terminal you're using or derived by some overly clever sysadmin from terminfo.src. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
