Hey, Thanks for responding! I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me the same errors. In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies. How do I get past the overwrite issue.
I just found that dpkg by itself has a -force-overwrite switch. So I tried that and it seemed to work, but now I am unsure of how to add that to my package so that when I install from aptitude I will get the same results. Also, Is there any way to find out if there are files marked as a conffile inside a .deb package file? Thanks again! toddaa On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Noel David Torres Taño < env...@rolamasao.org> wrote: > > I've got a package which inclides some arbitrary web files. I'm adding > > them to the install file and packaging it up and it installs fine. Now I > > want to add the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to my package so that > > when I install, it overwrites or adds my custom configuration to the > > system so that I know it will serve up my web pages. Unfortunately, on > > install I am getting an error. It is telling me that it is trying to > > overwrite the existing apache2.conf file which is also in the the apache > > package, and then it bails. > > > > The weird thing is that I deleted the existing config file and tried it > > again and it gave the same error. > > > > Sorry if this sounds like a very elementary issue, but I've been > > searching/reading for two days and still nothing. Hopefully somone can > > share a solution with me. > > > > Thanks! > > > > toddaa > > A package can not overwrite config files of another package (either if they > exist or not is irrelevant to the point, as long as their are listed as > conffiles) without a Replaces tag. > > In any case, are you SURE you need to touch the general Apache config file? > Can not you use the /etc/apache2/conf.d directory for your purposes? > > Noel > er Envite >
