[gentoo-dev] the upcoming ppp ebuild need to remove files from /etc

[gentoo-dev] the upcoming ppp ebuild need to remove files from /etc

[Alin Nastac]

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Hi gang,

The new ppp ebuild should erase /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and
/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 installed by previous versions of net-dialup/ppp.
The upcoming sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11 will be able to handle any
kind of PPP links.

What would be the best way of doing this?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] the upcoming ppp ebuild need to remove files from /etc

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:35:35AM +0200, Alin Nastac wrote:
> The new ppp ebuild should erase /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and
> /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 installed by previous versions of net-dialup/ppp.
> The upcoming sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11 will be able to handle any
> kind of PPP links.
> 
> What would be the best way of doing this?

Instruct the user to erase them and create the symlinks instead in
pkg_postinst()?

Regards,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd

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Re: [gentoo-dev] the upcoming ppp ebuild need to remove files from /etc

[Petteri Räty]

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Alin Nastac wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> The new ppp ebuild should erase /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and
> /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 installed by previous versions of net-dialup/ppp.
> The upcoming sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11 will be able to handle any
> kind of PPP links.
> 
> What would be the best way of doing this?

I suggest you install dummy files.

start() {
	einfo "This init script is deprecated and you can"
	einfo "safely remove it from the default runlevel."
}

Also when doing etc-update/dispatch-conf over the conf.d file users will
see that the file is deprecated. Then you can just drop installing the
files in the next version.

Regards,
Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] the upcoming ppp ebuild need to remove files from /etc

[Georgi Georgiev]

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maillog: 21/11/2005-13:47:46(+0200): Petteri Räty types
> Also when doing etc-update/dispatch-conf over the conf.d file users will
> see that the file is deprecated. Then you can just drop installing the
> files in the next version.

You assume that the user is upgrading incrementally...

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