Comment 6 for bug 985508
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| Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog) wrote Re: [Bug 985508] Re: dpkg-maintscript-helper 'mv_conffile' fails if target doesn't already exist | #6 |
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Andreas Rütten wrote:
> Neither the old 'rules' nor the new 'rules.v4' file are shipped within
> the package and so they are not a conffile.
In this case, effectively the usage of dpkg-maintscrip
not welcome, it has clearly been written to deal with conffiles and
it tries to verify if the file is pristine or not
by looking into the "Conffiles" field of the package.
Since a non-conffile would never appear there, it will always assume
that the file has been modified by the admin and will thus always keep
a copy of the old file.
This "pristine check" is the main point of doing all this, otherwise a simple
mv in the preinst is generally enough.
Replying to the initial bug reporter:
> The 'mv_conffile' function only works if the target file exists by the
> postinst stage.
It should better exist since it's a new conffile and it has been just
installed by dpkg (at least that's the assumption made).
Cheers,
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