On 16 Jun 2006, Frank Küster uttered the following:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 16 Jun 2006, Frank Küster told this:
>>
>>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 14 Jun 2006, Steve Langasek outgrape:
>>>>
>>>>> Just like there's no guarantee that saying "no" to a conffile
>>>>> prompt when upgrading across stable releases will give you a
>>>>> usable package.
>>>>
>>>> I prefer in that case not to install the new version of the
>>>> package; since questions can be missed in a dist-upgrade. Some
>>>> of my packages default to not upgrading unless some questions are
>>>> answered affirmatively -- so the end result is still a working
>>>> package (as long as the dependencies still exist).
>>>
>>> How do you achieve this? The conffile questions are displayed
>>> after the new package is unpacked, so isn't a failing postinst all
>>> you can get? How do you get back to the old version?
>>
>> I ask the questions in preinst.
>
> So you aren't talking about dpkg's conffile questions, right? Or is
> there a trick?
You are quite correct. I translated conffile into
configuration file in my head. I don't know how to do this if dpkg is
the entity asking the question.
manoj
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