scores file - how to fix?
I've been looking at how to change my packages to conform to the "new"
standard. I was one of those nasty, bad people who tagged scores files as
conffiles. I believe this is how to fix it:
preinst: when called with "upgrade old-version", check to see if the
old-version was a "broken" package. If it was, copy the
scores to a temporary location (e.g. "cp $SCORE $SCORE.tmp" )
postinst: if $SCORE.tmp exists, "mv $SCORE.tmp $SCORE". Always do
"touch $SCORE; chown root.games $SCORE; chmod 0664 $SCORE"
This should keep the old scores around if they exist. It always creates a
scores file with the correct permissions. You should always check that the
program can cope with a zero length file.
Adrian
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