[pkg-fso-maint] breakage ahead
Sebastian Reichel
elektranox at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 16:54:17 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:27:34PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:15:02PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> >>2.) some script fso-usaged-update-config (or similiar) is run in
> >>postinst in the absence of a config file (so if a file/symlink)
> >>is present nothing will run in the postinst. But when the user
> >>wants to he can run it by hand to update it possibly with a
> >>param indicating the device type.
> >
> >ok than there's a +1 for nikita's idea from me :)
>
> This approach seems to only handle install.
>
> What about upgrade to newer config?
probably some kind of notification should be shown, if the user
modified the file.
> What about removal?
just add a "rm /etc/.../cfg" in postrm in the case of a purge?
> What about corner cases (half-installed, limited disk space etc)?
half-installed would mean no symlink, so no config file. I guess
this is the same for debconf packages? I'm not sure what you mean
by limited disk space. I guess we have limited disk space on FR :)
-- Sebastian
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