[pkg-bacula-devel] Current status of merging development2 branch

[Alexander Golovko]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:11:33 +0400, Alexander Golovko wrote:

...

>> 
>> <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bacula-devel/2012-May/000242.html>
>>
>>>>> * f968df9 Install conffiles, don't mess with them
>>>>>     REJECTED
>> [...]
>>>> At a first view Hauke's approach is more Debian-like: /etc files 
>>>> are
>>>> conffiles (see `dpkg-query -s dpkg`), so they should be treated as
>>>> such.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are right partially.
>>> Debian-like is not "conffiles", but safe process of package 
>>> updating.
>>> Dpkg conffiles is only one of methods for solve config update 
>>> problem.
>>> In our case ucf is much more better for this purpose.
>>
>> I see two advantages of dpkg-conffiles: first, you are prompted 
>> during
>> upgrades and, second, they are listed in a central places, i.e.
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.conffiles.  I know about ucf, but I have 
>> never
>> played with it and I still think that this should have been 
>> implemented
>> in dpkg, but this is another story ;-)
>
> ucf like dpkg prompt user, when it need update changed by user config 
> file.
> ucf register managed files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.conffiles.
>

Sorry, i mislead you.
ucf don't register managed files in 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.conffiles
Such ability is only in dpkg roadmap yet. This will be in future, but 
not now.

What is about config files management (user prompting, etc...) - i 
don't wrong :)

-- 
with best regards,
Alexander Golovko
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