fredagen den 10 januari 2003 16.49 skrev Bob Hilliard: > Policy prohibits overriding conffiles that have been changed by > the admin. Deleting a file is considered changing it. One must > assume that the admin deleted the file for a reason. Debian does not > prevent users from shooting themselves in the foot. However, I > believe the new conffile will be installed as <filename>.dpkg-dist.
The problem is that those files sometimes tend to disappear by themselves in some instances when upgrading. I don't know what circumstances. Maybe due to bugs in the packages? Maybe aborted upgrades? It is a reoccuring thing on the debian-kde list that someone has one of the essential files missing. And as the problem occur often enough, I was thinking about somehow safeguarding that it can't happen. If there are no mechanism that can prohibit this behaviour, the only thing I can think about is a shell-script in a postinst file that checks for the essential files. Or in preinst, that checks for this file, and somehow tell dpkg to install it, if I could just figure out what that could be. Does that sound like a good idea? Karolina
