bug 266981

Jörg Sommer joerg@alea.gnuu.de
Mon, 30 May 2005 20:38:29 +0200


Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Tue 03. May, 08:42 (+0200):
> * Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> [2005-05-02 23:12]:
> 
> > But we can't remove the files, because a user may have made changes i=
n it
> > and we would remove its private config.
> 
> Yes, this is a potential source of problems.
> 
> > How deal other packages with such problems. I think the special here =
is
> > /etc
> 
> $ md5sum /etc/jed-init.d/00site.sl /etc/jed-init.d/99default.sl
> 2e00fef46fcee03fe504cea3b58510b6  /etc/jed-init.d/00site.sl
> 1514586554dfe5aefcee84aa967fb01b  /etc/jed-init.d/99default.sl
> 
> We could check in preinst (or postinst) if the files have the md5sum
> values above.  If yes, this means that the user did not change them and
> they can be removed.
> 
> What do you think?

I've done it like that.

Jörg.
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