On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > I want to do the following to a configuration file: Ignore all updates > of the conffile inside the .deb (in other words: just keep what's > installed on the system). At the moment this file is marked as > conffile.
If the file stops being a conffile, it _must_ no longer be included in the .deb. To do so would not provide policy-compliant behaviour. > A rather problematic issue is on upgrades from a previous package > where the previous one had it as a conffile. I think about the > following: Just removing this file in the deb, and then do in > postinst: > if [ ! -a file -a -a file.dpkg-old ]; then > mv file.dpkg-old file; > fi > > if [ ! -a file ]; then > cp template file; > fi I think you mean "-f" for most of those "-a". You should not be touching anything ending in .dpkg-*. The copy seems reasonable, but the mv is unnecessary and should be omitted. When the package is upgraded from a version with the conffile to a version without the conffile, the actual config file on the system remains, and should be left in place. -- - mdz
