Bug#655968: smokeping: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user

[Antoine Beaupré]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:58 +0100, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> is that old conffile always identical? if so, you could check if that file 
> has 
> that md5sum and if so, just remove it.

Thanks for this trick! I really wondered for a long time how I should do
this!

I have uploaded a new version which should close this bug, with the
following code in preinst:

        IFS=":"
        ucfq -w /etc/smokeping/basepage.html \
                /etc/smokeping/smokemail \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/Alerts \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/Presentation \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/pathnames \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/General \
                /etc/smokeping/config.d/Slaves \
                | while read file package exists changed; do
            if [ "$package" = "smokeping" -a "$changed" = "No" ]; then
                rm -f "$file"
            fi

I have tested the upgrade and I do not get prompts anymore, let me know
if it doesn't work for you!

Thanks,

A.

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