On 2005-04-02 11:32:24 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Our current issue is the other way round: update-exim4.conf.conf > correctly fixed up your configuration file, preserving all local > changes that it was able to see. And you overwrote the fixed code with > the output of your m4 script. I don't see what the exim4 configuration > can do here.
Probably nothing, and I don't think this would be necessary as long as the user has been warned that a change has occurred (or may have occurred). IMHO, an announce in the NEWS file is not sufficient, for several reasons (e.g. it appears just like the ChangeLog displayed with apt-listchanges). If this is an exceptional change (like here), then a dialog box should be displayed during the dpkg-reconfigure. Other packages do this. > > > but having multiple versions of the file replacing each other > > > depending on environment is pretty exotic. > > > > It's pretty common for those who use netenv. > > But done wrong. This is often done like this (often with symbolic links, which I used to use... until some broken software incorrectly overwrote my config file following the symlink). > > Comments should be clear about who can modify the files and how. > > Anybody can modify update-exim4.conf.conf, and changes done locally > are respected. And you have proven that this works. OK, so the real problem was that the change hadn't been announced. > > and /etc/fonts/fonts.conf begins with: > > > > <!-- > > DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. > > IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED. > > LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'. > > So that file doesn't belong in /etc, it should be in /var. It is the > equivalent to our /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated Is there a policy for config files (concerning this and also the various problems above)? > I have adapted our postinst to dump the following comment into > ue4.conf.conf: > # Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes > # to this file might happen. This is usually fine, but will break local > # schemes that mess around with multiple versions of the file. Thanks. This is really clear now. Also, when there is a change, a dialog box at dpkg-reconfigure time would be nice (to warn the user and to describe the change), since the change is done at this time precisely. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
