Re: Sample config file

Thanks a lot Joey. You were completely right, dpkg handles the situation perfectly. Regards, Alberto On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:59:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > > conffile now won't av

Re: Sample config file

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version > in case it exists now. Or will it? I think dpkg handles this ok, and compares the md5sum of the existing file (if

Re: Sample config file

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta dijo: > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in > case it exists now. Or will it? Maybe you should just check in your preinst and prompt the user. -- Do

Re: Sample config file

Thanks Pedro, The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in case it exists now. Or will it? I mean, shouldn't it have to be a conffile in the previous version so updating the package would tak

Re: Sample config file

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > Hi all! > 2) In case of using it as global config file, and since it's not a > conffile today, wouldn't it overwrite /etc/multiCDrc in case it was > created by the local admin? Hi Alberto, Check http://www.debian.org/do

Re: Sample config file

Thanks a lot Joey. You were completely right, dpkg handles the situation perfectly. Regards, Alberto On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:59:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > > conffile now won't a

Sample config file

Hi all! I'm in the process of becoming a NM. In the meantime I'm working on a couple of packages. There's a bug reported in one of them (see: http://bugs.debian.org/104476) that asks the sample config file which comes with the upstream distribution to be used as global config fil

Re: Sample config file

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version > in case it exists now. Or will it? I think dpkg handles this ok, and compares the md5sum of the existing file (i

Re: Sample config file

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta dijo: > The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a > conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in > case it exists now. Or will it? Maybe you should just check in your preinst and prompt the user. -- D

Re: Sample config file

Thanks Pedro, The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in case it exists now. Or will it? I mean, shouldn't it have to be a conffile in the previous version so updating the package would ta

Re: Sample config file

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > Hi all! > 2) In case of using it as global config file, and since it's not a > conffile today, wouldn't it overwrite /etc/multiCDrc in case it was > created by the local admin? Hi Alberto, Check http://www.debian.org/d

Sample config file

Hi all! I'm in the process of becoming a NM. In the meantime I'm working on a couple of packages. There's a bug reported in one of them (see: http://bugs.debian.org/104476) that asks the sample config file which comes with the upstream distribution to be used as global config fil