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Before I take this up to Pat, just wanted to check if I'm think right about
this.

I just installed swaret and upgraded my desktop to the latest 10.0 packages
(from the original 10.0 CD packages). In the process it upgraded kdebase
which overwrote some of kdm's config files in /opt/kde/share/config/kdm.

Checking the install script I see that it only protects the kdmrc file not
the other config files in that directory. However the equivalent xdm config
files in the x11-6.7.0-i486-4 package are protected, which suggests it's an
oversight in the doinst.sh script for the kdebase package.

Am I think right here, should I inform Pat?

Blumf

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, Blumf dared to utter,
> Am I think right here, should I inform Pat?

Yeah, I'd inform him. It looks like a simple oversight.

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Blumf dared to utter,
>> Am I think right here, should I inform Pat?
>
> Yeah, I'd inform him. It looks like a simple oversight.
>
> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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> Before I take this up to Pat, just wanted to check if I'm think right
> about this.
>
> I just installed swaret and upgraded my desktop to the latest 10.0
> packages (from the original 10.0 CD packages). In the process it upgraded
> kdebase which overwrote some of kdm's config files in
> /opt/kde/share/config/kdm.
>
> Checking the install script I see that it only protects the kdmrc file not
> the other config files in that directory. However the equivalent xdm
> config files in the x11-6.7.0-i486-4 package are protected, which suggests
> it's an oversight in the doinst.sh script for the kdebase package.
>
> Am I think right here, should I inform Pat?

You are right,
one of the shortcomings of slackware's package management is that it doesn't
automatically handle config files in packages (computers are made to do
these boring things!!).



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дамјан

0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that?

?????? ??????????? wrote:
> one of the shortcomings of slackware's package management is that it doesn't
> automatically handle config files in packages (computers are made to do
> these boring things!!).

i don't think there is any package management system that "automatically"
handles config files in packages. they only do so because the package
maintainer creates his package in the right way.

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