On Wed, February 8, 2006 2:02 pm, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> [snip] >> The postinstall/preremove system seems unnecessarily complex. It >> includes nearly 250 lines of shell script and two manifests to do what >> could be accomplished simply with: >> >> [ ! -f /etc/quilt.quiltrc ] && \ >> cp /etc/defaults/etc/quilt.quiltrc /etc/quilt.quiltrc >> >> and >> >> cmp -s /etc/defaults/etc/quilt.quiltrc /etc/quilt.quiltrc && \ >> rm -f /etc/quilt.quiltrc >> >> ...and by locating the default quiltrc file under /etc/defaults instead >> of stashed away in /usr/share/doc/quilt-<VER>/examples/quilt.quiltrc and >> requiring all that scripting to locate. > > Do we already have a package (like _update-info-dir) that takes care of > moving everything from /etc/defaults to the intended locations? If not, > would such a package be useful (so that you can simply add > /etc/defaults/<pkg>.pkgrc, and then depend on that script)? Maybe fold > the functionality right into _update-info-dir (since so many packages > already depend on it)? > > I may be misremembering, and something like this may already exist, in > which case I'll crawl back under my rock.
Not as far as I know - it was proposed when base-files started using /etc/defaults, but it never got written. J.
