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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:09:40 +0100
From:      David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
To:        des@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   INN ports deinstall config files
Message-ID:  <20030401010940.GA19343@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>

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I've noticed (unfortunately) that running ``portupgrade inn'' does bad
things(tm) to installed config files.  They get deleted in the pkg_delete,
then blank files are installed by inn.  Inn does create backups (I think)
of config files when it's installed into a previously used directory, but
even then, it'd be nice if the config files weren't replaced with defaults
which probably won't work.

I can't see an easy way to install all the config files as (say)
foo.conf.dist or whatever, but that's the best alternative I can see (and
seems to be how other ports deal with it).  They definately shouldn't be
listed in pkg-plist, IMO, though, since portupgrade --all should
definately not erase all config files installed on the machine :)

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David Taylor
davidt@yadt.co.uk
"The future just ain't what it used to be"

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