[Pkg-samba-maint] ucf for smb.conf?

[Eloy Paris]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:46:04AM +0530, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
>
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:13:53PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:09:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone have opinions on whether ucf is appropriate here? Or
> > > > is it to me to present a trial implementation? :)
> >
> > > Maybe one like the attached diff, then?
> >
> > And by "the attached diff", I mean this one.
>
> Yikes. I never used ucf myself so I'm not really sure that my advice
> has some value.

Me neither. I'd have to get up to speed with it if we're going in that
direction, which it seems we're pretty close to do ;-)

> I overread your patch and found nothing awful (are you
> surprised?). IMHO, it's probably OK to jump into it an put that nice
> piece of work in production.
> 
> Indeed, ucf seems pretty cool *and easy* to use.

So it seems. My question is: is the patch working well? Does it solve
the problem that you Vorlon are trying to solve?

Cheers,

Eloy.-