[69] in athena10
Re: debathena-replace-conffiles idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 30 11:01:09 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:55:35 -0500
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On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 02:57 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Notice that this interface would not support a single package diverting
> two configuration files by the same name in different directories. I
> think this is unlikely to be relevant for any real configuration package.
I'm fine with this, but I'll suggest the workaround of substituting _
for / in the config file name, so that the source and destination files
look like:
debian/conffile-copies/etc_ldap_ldap.conf
debian/etc_ldap_ldap.conf.debathena
Of course, that's not 100% clean either; two config files
named /etc/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/config would conflict this way.
I assume debian/conffile-copies is hand-updated in the sources right
now?
Anyway, the overall design seems sound.
