On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:40:00 +0100 David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Jörgen Tegnér, Francesco Poli & Michael Prokop, > > First of all: Thanks for the reports!
You're welcome.
[...]
> To cut it short, i will sit down and rewrite it a bit so it has the
> old behavior (expect that configfiles will be accepted also with .conf -
> any suggestions for preferences ?)
I don't know exactly what the old behavior was, since, ahem, I failed
to find any documentation about it, as I said...
Anyway, I think anything ending with .disabled , .dpkg-old , .dpkg-dist
or .dpkg-new should be skipped.
Restoring the old behavior is clearly the safest thing to do.
> I guess, while on it i should write the filename conventions also
> to the manpages for these various partfiles...
Yes, that would be *really* appreciated! ;-)
>
> None the less, i would change apt-listbugs a bit:
>
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"if [ -x /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ]; then
> /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10; else exit 0; fi";};
>
> As far as i know all other packages do it that way
I respectfully disagree that this should be done for apt-listbugs: the
purpose of apt-listbugs is primarily to kick in when packages that are
going to be upgraded/installed are RC-buggy and let the user stop the
upgrade/installation, pin packages, and so forth.
If anything goes wrong (e.g.: file /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs is moved or
discarded or just loses execution permissions) and the Pre-Install hook
begins to silently do nothing, the user might never notice that
apt-listbugs is no longer actually executed, and just think that
his/her upgrades or installations are safe!
The current situation is different: if the apt-listbugs package is
installed, but something wrong prevents the execution of apt-listbugs,
this issue is as noisy as possible.
I think this is good!
> and i also wonder
> a bit if this .disabled thing is something dpkg likes...
> (does it show old vs. new config file if the package was removed
> and now reinstalled - but ships a new config now -- the old config was
> edit by the user of course... ?)
I don't know, yet (I am not the one who originally wrote the code that
adds the .disabled extension to that conf file).
I'll try and find the time to check: thanks for pointing this out.
> It also support something i do personally: Configure it one time and
> copy the same configuration to all computers/phones/whatever -
> regardless if the application itself is installed or not - as the
> configuration
> will degenerate to a NOP if not... (init-scripts do the same btw.)
I think I explained why apt-listbugs is different.
Bye and thanks for your time.
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