[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#1094636: dpkg conffile modified warnings on upgrades

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.01.25 um 15:08 schrieb Yavor Doganov:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 29.01.25 um 14:36 schrieb Yavor Doganov:
>>> Since the old postinst runs "hostname -i" (bad idea, I know) I
>>> guess the file is going to be different across various systems,
>>> depending on the configuration.
> 
>> What you could do then, is to generate the list of known hashes
>> on-the-fly by taking "hostname -i" into account. Instead of
>> hard-coding the hashsums, you generate them in preinst in exactly the
>> same way as previous versions did.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
> 
> Yes, it makes perfect sense.  But I have very poor shell scripting
> skills and have to figure out a way to do it.  I guess I should create
> a temporary file and compare the md5sums with the file on the system,
> and silently delete it if they match.  Perhaps some version check
> would be necessary to avoid executing it every time.
> 
> Also, shouldn't this code snippet be in prerm instead of preinst (and
> only applicable for the "upgrade" action)?
> 

You can't retroactively add code to existing packages. Can you be more 
specific, why you want to add that code to the prerm of the "existing" 
package?
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