Bug#434728: configuration should be in /etc/tomcat5.5

David Pashley david at davidpashley.com
Tue Jul 31 05:47:32 UTC 2007


On Jul 30, 2007 at 23:21, Marcus Better praised the llamas by saying:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:15:33AM +0100, David Pashley wrote:
> 
> > > All the config files should be in /etc/tomcat5.5.
> 
> > I think this is good and really needed. Makes live much easier for
> > backups. And its a policy violation we need to fix.
> 
> Agreed. Not sure about the upgrade path though. Should we move the config 
> files from /var/lib to /etc in maintainer scripts?
> 
> Marcus

Seems a better plan than updating and spending ages trying to work out
why your tomcat no longer works. It might be worth checking that the
file doesn't already exist in /etc/tomcat5.5 before moving the file and
throw up a debconf warning saying we couldn't migrate everything.



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