[Freedombox-discuss] How do we handle package upgrades on the Freedombox?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Nick Daly (2014-04-16 01:08:20)
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>> When Plinth directly edits configuration files, it is an 
>> administrators' tool.
>>
>> Solution is to have Plinth only ever communicate with debconf!
>>
>> ...and convince various package maintainers (e.g. by offering 
>> patches) to implement via debconf the configuration flexibility that 
>> we need.
>
> Jonas, just to help save you from having to explain this again in the 
> future, could you put together some sort of trivial example that folks 
> could reference, and make it available somewhere?

Good point!

James created a wiki page tracking transition to debconf, and I have now 
referenced from that page a tutorial on packaging with debconf:

  https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Build/DebconfConfig


 - Jonas

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