On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:01:21AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > However theses files are binaries files, not text files. They probably > > do not beong in /etc in the first place but at least they should not be > > marked as conffiles, since dpkg do not handle non-text conffiles in a > > useful way: > > > > Setting up ncurses-base (5.4-8) ... > > > > Configuration file `/etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode' > > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > > D : show the differences between the versions > > Z : background this process to examine the situation > > The default action is to keep your current version. > > *** rxvt-unicode (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? D > > Binary files /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode and > > /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.dpkg-new differ > > But they ARE conffiles! One of the reasons they're in /etc is so that > the system administrator can modify them if desired.
No, they are maybe config files, but they cannot be conffiles, since they are not text files. > I'm sorry dpkg doesn't offer a way to specify a diff program usefully; > infocmp would work fine. That is why you should not mark them as conffiles but handle them manually with a script that provide a way to edit and diff them. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
