On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 09:27 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > This is up to each package maintainer. Current best practice - at least, > as of a year or two ago when I asked about it on cygwin-apps I think - is > to include: > > (1) a default config file in /etc/defaults/etc; > (2) a preremove script that removes the existing config file iff it hasn't > change from the default; and > (3) a postinstall script that installs the default config into /etc if no > other config file is already there. > > If all three of those are present, then a package upgrade will replace the > existing config files if and only if they haven't changed since they were > installed. If they have changed, then it's up to the user to merge the old > and new configs. > > cygport provides automatic support for (1) and (3) above if you call e.g. > > make_etc_defaults /etc/lftp.conf > > To complete the set, package maintainers have to separately include a > simple preremove script, e.g.
Actually, cygport handles (2) as well. No further intervention should be necessary once make_etc_defaults is called. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
