[Pkg-samba-maint] ucf for smb.conf?

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:09:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Does anyone have opinions on whether ucf is appropriate here?  Or is it to
> me to present a trial implementation? :)

Maybe one like the attached diff, then?

I'm not sure that the dhcp handling is correct yet, I need to have another
look still; but by and large this seems to DTRT, aside from a problem with
three-way merging not doing something sensible (reported as bug #456245).

> One of my implementation concerns is how we should prepopulate ucf with
> the known previous "package" version; I don't really want to keep copies
> around of the (sarge,dapper,gutsy) smb.confs for comparison, but the
> alternative is again to try to do some sed evil...

So I guess keeping around the old copies of the file for a release cycle is
the right answer anyway, unless we really want to have a postinst script
filled with sed that's about twice as long as the smb.conf itself is...

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