On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Carlo Contavalli wrote: > I was seeking for some opinions... I'm working now on a > package that relies on a script that may be modified by the system > administrator, and I'm wondering about: > > - how to manage upgrades (overwrites & co.) > - where to put it > > This script works well with a default debian installtion but > should really be modified on any other system. It would be called by > an authentication module run by courier pop3/imap server, and > it would perform administrative tasks. postinst and co. wouldn't > touch this script (an administrator should manually modify it). > The most logical place to me to put this script was /usr/sbin, > and to let dpkg manage it as a conffile. However, this is quite > against the debian policy. There are many good solutions, > and I'd like to know what you would do...
you could put the code in /usr/sbin, and a configuration file in /etc. the main script could then source the config file, which, if it is marked as a conffile, will be handled correctly by dpkg. this is of course assuming the script is a shell script. but the same could be done with python, perl, etc. -- gram
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