Will do. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 8:35 AM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kana...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Ross is merely helping you to reach the correct solution, but > everyone would appreciate if you write and submit the actual fix :-) > > Alex > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 16:32, Rusty Howell <rustyhow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the quick responses. It took us a while to figure out why > we were seeing weird behaviour with our products, and we ultimately figured > out the conffiles are being replaced during the update. I am working off > of Hardknott currently, so that's my mistake not switching to master. And > I guess I misunderstood who is allowed to "sign off" on patches. I assumed > I couldn't since I'm not a regular. But in any case, it looks like Ross > Burton may be on to a better solution than what I have to fix the issue. > > > > Rusty > > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 8:09 AM Ross Burton <ross.bur...@arm.com> wrote: > >> > >> > So we’re definitely not generating the DEBIAN/md5sums files that > dpkg-deb likes to have. However, this file in proper Debian packages > doesn’t contain hashes for the conffiles, so I can only imagine that dpkg > generates them on install, which leads to the question of where that is > meant to happen. > >> > >> dpkg —configure does this, but we’re neutering it by renaming all > foo.dpkg-new files to foo in the deb install() function. > >> > >> If we’re going to rename foo.dpkg-new to foo, then that is where we go > and update the status file. > >> > >> Alternatively, we don’t do that, and every package needs to run its > configure step on first boot. > >> > >> Ross > >> > >> >
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