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diff --git a/website/bugs/postinst-clobbers-gpg.conf-settings.mdwn b/website/bugs/postinst-clobbers-gpg.conf-settings.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f7f2137..0000000 --- a/website/bugs/postinst-clobbers-gpg.conf-settings.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="debian packaging postinst script clobbers gpg.conf settings in /var/lib/monkeysphere" ]] - -Do we want to allow the system administrator to make adjustments to -the `gpg.conf` config files found in `/var/lib/monkeysphere`? At the -moment, there are two such files: - - * `/var/lib/monkeysphere/gnupg-authentication/gpg.conf` - * `/var/lib/monkeysphere/gnupg-host/gpg.conf` - -In the debian postinst scripts (`debian/monkeysphere.postinst`), the -contents of those files are overwritten on every upgrade/reinstall, -effectively clobbering any changes made by the local admin. - -Maybe we *do* want to do this clobbering, though. Stuff in `/var` is -generally not expected to be modified by hand. I see two possible -resolutions to this: - - * when we clobber those files, include a comment along the lines of: - # do not make changes to this file! It is overwritten on each upgrade! - - * Avoid clobbering the files, and treat them as config files. - -the latter approach suggests that they should be more properly stored -in `/etc/`, though. This would give us all the conf-file tracking -apparatus, which is nice. If we do want to do that, I guess we'd -symlink to them from the monkeysphere-specific `$GNUPGHOME`s in -`/var/lib/monkeysphere`, since `gpg` does not seem to allow for -overriding the location of the `gpg.conf` independent of `$GNUPGHOME`. - ---- - -All the gpg.conf files now reside in /etc/monkeysphere, and are linked -in into the GNUPGHOMEs in /var/lib/monkeysphere. - -[[bugs/done]] on 2008-10-11 |