Conffiles and configuration management systems

[sean finney]

hi,

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:36:44PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> So, our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to let people use
> Puppet (or similar tools) to fiddle with conffiles while still having
> smooth upgrades.
> 
> Enter the strawman:
> 
> 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.

why not just have the system install packages with --force-conffold?  that
way puppet's versions would always take precedence.


	sean
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