On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:02:32PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > - save the conffile in the new preinst to /tmp and use it to seed > the new conffile in the new postinst. The problem here is that > I could potentially override a file in /tmp if I simply cp(1)'d > the file there. Using mktemp(1) however is not an option because > then the postinst does not know the filename. > > [...] > > The second seems to be the cleanest solution, but I am also not > happy with it. Is there another way?
How about installing the config file template into /usr/share/foo and copying it to the config dir in the postinst? (Policy 10.7.3) -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
