On 31/03/2010 22:37, Joey Hess wrote: > Didier Raboud wrote: >> while updating one of my packages (which again dropped a conffile), I had to >> modify its preinst, according to http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling >> . >> >> This works but is IMHO suboptimal: the code referenced on the wiki has to be >> hand copied in each and every package that has to move or delete conffiles. >> >> This could maybe be done through a dh_oldconffiles (for removing) and a >> dh_moveconffiles (for moving). Those helpers would read >> ${package}.oldconffiles >> in debian/ containing e.g.: > > I prefer to keep large blocks of code out of maintainer scripts > entirely, by putting them in utilities that debhelper can then arrange > maintainer scripts to call. Or that maintainers can call directly. > > So, I wrote a patch to dpkg in 2008 to add a dpkg-conffile command, > that handles renaming and removal of conffiles. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2008/01/msg00143.html > > There was a little bit of followup, but dpkg's maintainers never > integrated it, nor do they seem to have given a reason not to integrate it. > > The patch still seems good. From the history of > http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling , I see only one bugfix has > been made to that page since, that should be folded into the patch. It is > described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/03/msg00795.html
There is also the fact that the code on this page does not deal with the abort-upgrade condition. Code doing that (for moving conffile) should also test for abort-upgrade in prerm and put back in place the conffile; for deleting conffile, the conffile should not be deleted too soon (but moved away and deleted in the postinst/postrm). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb445cf.7090...@free.fr
