On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:10:29PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:00:52PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > To be, perhaps, a little more explicit: there are programs for which > > the existence of an empty configuration file means something completely > > different than a missing a configuration file[1]. Thus, for dpkg > > conffile handling, removing a configuration file is a legitimate "edit". > > It would help to have an example. However, even if there is an > example I don't see how db.root fits in this category.
Unfortunately there's no way for a package to override this aspect of dpkg's conffile handling. It would have to be handled entirely in the maintainer scripts in some different (and careful!) way. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
