[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#326644: gpm: modifies conffile?

[Justin Pryzby]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Justin Pryzby]

> > > The problem here is that we didn't forcibly add the md5sum of the
> > > previous non-ucf file to the ucf database. So it was marked as
> > > modified, then you didn't install any new config file version handled
> > > by ucf, so it kept thinking it was manually generated.
> > Can you fix it in the preinst, by adding it now?
> 
> Won't help.  We cannot tell the difference, as Guillem said, between a
> file converted to ucf in sarge and later modified by hand, and a file
> converted to ucf in sarge and *not* later modified by hand.
Are you talking about the case that the file is at some defualt-ish
"version" 1, then updated to v2, then to v3, and then the admin
manually "updates" in such a way that it happens to be identical to
v2?

> > As above, isn't the md5sum of the previous nonucf file known?
> 
> What md5sum?  The one corresponding to the woody /etc/gpm.conf on your
> computer?
woody?  I haven't run woody on this machine in forever .. possibly
never.  The file might have been "the one woody used" though, I guess.

Justin