Re: Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files

2002-02-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Since it is too late to modify dpkg (freeze), I am going to > package this script up, and make my smacsen packages depend on the > resulting package, and start preserving user changes in emacsen > site-start.d files. If you use this script in

Re: Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files

2002-02-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, After a incorporating a few modifications suggested by people on the list, and testing most of the code paths, here is a new version of the script and manual page. I have only lightly tested the historical md5sum directory, but the code is fairly straight forward, and I do not anti

Re: Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files

2002-02-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, *Sigh*. Never, ever, make cosmetic changes to a script after testing and before publishing it. Errors are guaranteed to happen. Fixed script attached. manoj updateConfFile Description: Fixed updateConfFile script -- The probability of someone watching you is proportion

Protecting user changes in developer scripts handled files

2002-02-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, There have been some threads about emacs start files, generally kept in directories like /etc/x?emacs{,20,21}/site-start.d/. These files are shipped in that place in the package itself, since the directories they are installed in depend on the flavours/versions of emacsen i