On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:09:35PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote: > OK, I want to remove all conffile files and reinstall the new ones > when doing package upgrade, as there isn't much user intervention to > those conffile files. All are provided by the package. Then they shouldn't be conffiles and shouldn't be in /etc. And if you want to drop user modifications you are just breaking the Policy requirements.
> So I do `rm_conffile` to the old conffile files when doing package > upgrade, rm_conffile is about preserving user modifications. And, again, calling it with a dir is wrong. > How to properly handle conffile files in such a case? If they shouldn't be modified by the user, they should be in /usr. -- WBR, wRAR
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