From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 90325 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2019 16:17:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 90316 invoked by uid 89); 11 Aug 2019 16:17:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=wave, considering, sensibly, behaves X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:17:40 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D19D9AF80 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [91.47.53.40]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6B63A199C5A for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:17:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] italic-man References: <80003dc4-e484-543b-befe-3b3db8d3c1d6@towo.net> <875zn6uq0h.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <7ea1dcb2-70bc-9a74-e5a3-0be55f85d7fa@towo.net> <05f12d5f-3cb8-e331-a7ee-7fa5812218d8@towo.net> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:17:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <05f12d5f-3cb8-e331-a7ee-7fa5812218d8@towo.net> (Thomas Wolff's message of "Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:33:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87lfvzy8v6.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 Thomas Wolff writes: >> How are updates to man-db, /etc/man_db.conf etc. handled? > I checked the man-db postinstall script, and it does not overwrite > man_db.conf if it exists already, so the modification will persist. No postinstall script should ever modify files in /etc if they have been changed from their default. By extension, they shouldn't do any editing there either. >> Is a permanent postinstall script provided to maintain the conf on man-db updates? > Not needed under the observation above. If it were, how would a > permanent postinstall be deployed? By naming it correctly and making sure it behaves sensibly considering that it runs each time setup finishes, i.e. exiting as early as possible if there's nothing to do, using dash instead of bash and a number of other things. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada