On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On May 24, Tom Lees wrote > > > > The third solution, which I prefer is a utility which modifies the > > variables within the scripts - it's faster, it is more "backwards > > compatible" with sysadmins from other Unices, and generally it's nicer > > (less dependant on the cfgtool at boot-time). > > And it changes the conffiles, which means that the user will still get > bugged with "Conffile changed, overwrite with package's version or keeps > yours?" questions from dpkg, which is exactly what we want to avoid with > cfgtool.
There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include any line with "config=yes" in it in the md5sum of certain files. So, for example:- #!/bin/sh # the blah script <some code> BLAH=yes # config=yes If this becomes:- #!/bin/sh # the blah script <some code> BLAH=no # config=yes It still gets excluded from the md5sum, but if someone changes it, like:- #!/bin/sh # the blah script <some code> BLAH=no Then dpkg gets a different md5sum, and prompts, because it is included this time. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
