On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:15:36AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: snort-rules-default > Version: 2.3.2-2 > Severity: serious > > Hello Javier, > > When upgrading a pristine woody chroot with snort installed, and no > snort conffiles modified manually, upgrading snort-rules-default cause > dpkg to prompt conffiles handling for thirty-four (34) files. This is > more than the total for a standard upgrade to sarge when snort is not > installed. But given that I did not modify any of them in the first > place even one would be too much. > > See the log below. This is easy to reproduce: > 1) debootstrap woody > 2) apt-get install snort > 3) retarget apt to sarge > 4) apt-get install snort-common ( to work around #311257) > > Apparenlty this is due to this line in snort-rules-default preinst: > mv /etc/snort/*.rules /etc/snort/rules/ > > This is not acceptable. If you do that, then you cannot mark the files > under /etc/snort/rules/... as conffiles anymore, you must handle them > with tool like ucf that can be instructed of the move. dpkg.org has a good description of what to do and how to do it:
http://www.dpkg.org/ConffileHandling Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
