On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Not to mention the config file conflicts on the next upgrade, even if > the DM changed only a single comment line. Plus there is no > notification to run my postinst script again.
If this is a configuration package, then presumably you want --force-confdef, so you don't need to rerun the postinst at all. Or if you really want, you *can* divert them.[1,2] You just can't do that in something that you upload to Debian. Though you really probably want to be using puppet, chef, or something similar instead. > I have to make sure that the host configuration follows certain rules > on all machines, e.g. for introducing signed host certificates for > sshd, for the ldap/kerberos integration, etc. Do whatever you want when you're the administrator! Just don't do this in a package you're distributing when you're not. 1: https://wiki.debian.org/ConfigPackages 2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476899 -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_ [Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
