On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 05:39:48PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: [...] > The next time there's an upgrade for courier-authdaemon, won't it > overwrite my version of /etc/courier/authdaemonrc with it's own? I > thought that was the whole reason for diversions in the first place, but > if diversions don't work for conffiles, then what is one to do? Or does > ucf work some magic to prevent this? > > Is this kind of thing addressed in the Debian Policy Manual (and I just > missed it)?
Yes, it is. If this is the courier-authdaemon in Debian, and it blindly overwrites conffiles on upgrade, expect it to be plastered with RC bugs faster than you can blink. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); SMTP([EMAIL PROTECTED]); IRC([EMAIL PROTECTED]); ICQ(114362511); AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER([EMAIL PROTECTED]); MUD([EMAIL PROTECTED]:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
