Re: debconf managed configuration files

2014-02-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 10:42:23 Daniel Pocock wrote: > Has anybody written any further documentation about debconf with > configuration files, for example, for those that don't meet the > assumptions for the example in the debconf-devel manpage? > > Are there any particular packages that ar

Re: debconf managed configuration files

2014-02-06 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 05/02/2014 10:42, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I've also found some references to the UCF package but it is not > referenced in the debconf-devel manpage itself, is UCF the way to go or > is this a red herring? If the default configuration file is shipped as-is by the package (no changes due to debco

Re: debconf managed configuration files

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Hartman
I've tried to do a reasonable job with the krb5-config package of updating a user-managed krb5.conf and keeping it in sync with debconf data. It's quite old and I doubt it's best practice any more but it is an example of how to approach a non-shell-script package. The debconf-managed comment is an