[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: Bug#655301: xcp-xapi fails to start

[Thomas Goirand]

On 01/18/2012 06:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 05:30 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 01/17/2012 02:47 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> 
>> By the way, I have proposed to have TOOLSTACK to be configured by
>> debconf, but Bastian rejected it because he thinks that I shouldn't be
>> rewriting the /etc/default/xen file.
> 
> It's not (just) Bastian but rather Debian policy that says you must not
> do this, 10.7.3 in particular.
> 
> Ian.

Overwriting the /etc/default/xen file did *NOT* overwrite a local change
in the *value* stored in the file. It would have only overwrite things
like comments, but keep the value written in the "TOOLSTACK" variable
(well, only if it has one of the 3 valid values, but do we care keeping
a broken value?). I believe doing this way is also Debian policy
compliant, there's nothing in the policy that forces you to keep
administrator's comments in a configuration file. If you think I'm
wrong, let me know.

Anyway, I am still waiting for comments on how you or Bastian want this
to be done. I have nothing against grep and friends...

Thomas