In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! I have a problem with my wwwoffle package: it has a config > file /etc/wwwoffle.conf. When installing I try to convert existing > config files with a shipped config file converter and only if that > fails because it is the first install of wwwoffle, I copy the > example conf file from the /usr/doc.
> The problem is now, that I have mark the /etc/wwwoffle.conf as > "configfile" in the ...../debian/conffiles file. But when building, > dpkg complains that the named conffile is not there, what is quit > right, since while shipping, the file isn't in /etc, but in > /usr/doc... > What should I do now ? simply let dpkg handle the > overwriting/not-installing of the config file and mark the file in > debian/conffiles or did not mark it in debian/conffiles and let > postinst handle the file. > Both will earn me some bug reports :-) Ain't that the truth ;). Well, I would just ship your new conffile in the std location, /etc/wwwoffle.conf or whatever, and not bother with this /usr/doc stuff. In the preinst, before that file is replaced, check if there's an old-style configfile and if so, copy it to a safe location (i.e., /etc/wwwoffle.conf.old-style). Then, in the postinst, check for this old-style config file in /etc/wwwoffle.conf.old-style or whatever, and (maybe interactively, maybe automatically) deal with that in a reasonable way. Most package maintainers actually don't manage to automatically convert conffiles from old styles to new ones; it's a pain and has hidden pitfalls. Consider the problem of package downgrade then upgrade again. Can be tricky stuff. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
