Hello,
I think Bill has a good point here. Ressource files like compiled
terminal descriptions should not be in etc since hardly anyone edits
them. Instead, they should be moved to /usr/share and links from them to
/etc/terminfo/... should be created, so the local admin still has a
chance to modify the files, and on the other hands the packages can work
without worrying about conffiles issues.
Therefore, I suggest the following transition:
- install the files into /usr/share/terminfo inside of the package
- in postinst, do something like...
(cd /usr/share ; find terminfo -type d) | (cd /etc ; xargs mkdir -p )
for x in `cd /usr/share ; find terminfo -type f; find terminfo -type l` ; do
if test -f /etc/$x ; then
if cmp /usr/share/$x /etc/$x ; then
ln -sf /usr/share/$x /etc/$x
else
echo "/etc/$x modified by local administrator, keeping as-is"
fi
else
ln -sf /usr/share/$x /etc/$x
fi
done
Regards,
Eduard.
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