Subject: Re: md5 checksums in pkg PLISTS
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/07/1998 08:37:34
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
> : Do we need a sane way of dealing with config files?  It seems like having the
> : pkg_delete operation fail is going to lead to trouble when trying to make an
> : automated upgrade process at some point..  
> AFAIK, pkg_delete doesn't actually fail, it just prints the message, deletes
> everything but the changed files, and that's it.  That's at least how it
> works for me with the pine pkg (for which I modify pine.conf).

The thing that will give people happyness & joy is when they install the
new package - AFAICT pkg_add doesn't check if a file is already there...


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>