On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 11:37 -0700, Atle Veka a écrit : > > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom configuration package which among > > other things installs an snmpd.conf into /etc/snmp/. Is there a way in my > > package declaration to tell apt to override the previously installed snmpd > > package that "owns" /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf? Or should I be going about this > > another way? > > > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/fci-newos-base_1.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf', which is also in package > > snmpd > > I think you can't. What you can do is dynamically create the file in > your postinst, but dpkg will mention that the file has been modified > each time snmpd is upgraded. What I would do (if it is possible and if > it would do the trick) is ship a separate file and use the postinst > script to append something like a "include,myfile.conf" at the end of > `/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf' (I don't know the syntax of this file). dpkg > would still ask what to do upon upgrade, but it looks cleaner to me to > have a single line to manage in the file. > > A topic on this subject just started on debian-devel (how to make things > easier for people doing what you are trying to), I suggest you browse > the archive tomorrow.
Thanks! I assume you mean the subject: Deploying configuration as packages. Atle - Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator
