Conffiles and configuration management systems

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, May 04, 2010, Soren Hansen wrote:
> Add a capability to dpkg to let tools like puppet take over this conffile
> merging process. Or, the poor man's alternative: add a capability to
> dpkg to ignore specific conffiles.

 This sounds great!  When I read your proposal, I came up with another
 use case for delegating the conffile merging stuff: multiple instances
 of the same service.  I think it would be a step in the right direction
 to make dpkg more flexible with respect to conffile handling.  That
 said, things like ucf got a quite a lot of critics, not sure whether it
 was because of its actual implementation or because it was just because
 "it should be done in dpkg".

   Thanks!
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Loïc Minier