[pkg-bacula-devel] 01/02: Remove leftover /etc/tmpfiles.d/bacula.conf if identical to new

[Sven Hartge]

On 18.07.2016 17:50, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
>> I think this can be improved:
> 
> ok, you found it yourself already :-)

Yes, I had this unsatisfied feeling that there has to be something
pre-made, this being Debian and all.

And I vaguely remembered seeing messages during upgrades about conffiles
being renamed or removed. I just couldn't remember in what context I saw
those. But then I found
https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/07/the-right-way-to-remove-an-obsolete-conffile-in-a-debian-package/
leading to https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling.

Before that I read the Maint Guide concerning when what script is
started with what parameters to find the moment where I can compare the
old with the new and remove it but only if the upgrade was from before a
specific version to after said version and was getting more and more
frustrated because postinst is the only place I have both files
available but postinst only gets the new version as parameter and not
the version we came from.

But fortunately I found the correct documentation to do it the right way.

Grüße,
Sven.


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