Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-09 Thread Hendrik Naumann
Hi > As a sysad, I do not like to edit anything beneath /usr by hand > Usually, in backing up a complete system, I regard it to be > completely restorable with only the original packages at hand and a > backup of everything except /usr. And because that worked for me, it was one of reasons to

Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-08 Thread rkrusty
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:10:39PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > hi ivan, > > > > Therefore, the correct place for the system wide override > > > directory should be > > > /etc/kde/{applnk,mimelnk,servcises,servicetypes} which might well > > > be empty by default. Actually, I believe having b

Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-08 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:38:02AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > Sorry, I disregard that subject line - in agree with that solution except for > one detail: > > As a sysad, I do not like to edit anything beneath /usr by hand (exception: > /usr/local) up to now, the only reason to ever do such a

Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-08 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Am Tuesday 08 May 2001 09:30 schrieb Bruce Sass: > hmmm, /usr could also be mounted read-only? Debian is one of the few Linux Distributions where /usr can be mounted readonly without breaking or complifiying anything. So, me votes for /etc/kde2/share/{applnk,mimelnk,templates} or /etc/kde2/{applnk

Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Norbert Nemec wrote: > Sorry, I disregard that subject line - in agree with that solution except for > one detail: > > As a sysad, I do not like to edit anything beneath /usr by hand (exception: hmmm, /usr could also be mounted read-only? > /usr/local) up to now, the only rea

Re: to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-08 Thread Norbert Nemec
Sorry, I disregard that subject line - in agree with that solution except for one detail: As a sysad, I do not like to edit anything beneath /usr by hand (exception: /usr/local) up to now, the only reason to ever do such a thing was to workaround bugs until a new debian-package came out. Usual

to stop the thread over conffiles...

2001-05-07 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Once and forall. What we want and don't want 1: We need a way for changes a system admin makes to files under /usr/share/applnk,mimelnk,services,servicetypes to not be overwritten during every upgrade. 2: conffiles is not the *right* solution. We all agree with th