On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 07:26:25PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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.
Please see: <http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt> 3. Configuration files Conffiles must be plain text. I am really sorry to have to resort to that, though. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
