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Re: update /etc/changelist as part of package install?

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Old 02-17-2008, 06:05 AM
Steve Shockley
 
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Default Re: update /etc/changelist as part of package install?

MikeyG wrote:
> Just a thought. For packages with sensitive system configs wouldn't it
> be useful if the install automatically patched /etc/changelist. Also it
> might help if they modified /etc/mtree/special too, although this is
> probably more difficult to get right.


Packages shouldn't modify system configs like that, at most the package
installer should inform the user to do so, or provide a script the user
can run to do so.

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