TurnKey Linux's take on Ubuntu appliance development: KISS

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:19:34PM -0600, Evan Broder wrote:
> i.e. if you're configuring /etc/nsswitch.conf, a package using
> config-package-dev will install an /etc/nsswitch.conf.debathena file,
> divert the original /etc/nsswitch.conf to
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.debathena-orig in its postinst, and symlink
> /etc/nsswitch.conf -> /etc/nsswitch.conf.debathena.

And this doesn't cause any prompts or overwritten configs on upgrade?

I'm pleasantly surprised if this is true.  There was a long known
incompatibility between dpkg's conffile handling and its diversion handling,
which is even codified in Debian/Ubuntu Policy (section 10.7.4).

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