From 32858aa7166018de6369008f1110d6be82ed1955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manoj Srivastava Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:32:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Correct the /etc/default conffile/config file stuff I mucked up Author: jdg Date: 2001/06/18 23:18:37 * Correct the /etc/default conffile/config file stuff I mucked up (sorry Joey!) [10.3.2] git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-129 --- policy.sgml | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 3d35f66..503a93e 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -4580,18 +4580,18 @@ test -f program-executed-later-in-script || exit 0 change. As the scripts themselves are frequently conffiles, modifying them requires that the administrator merge in their changes each time the package - is upgraded and the conffile changes. To ease + is upgraded and the conffile changes. To ease the burden on the system administrator, such configurable values should not be placed directly in the script. Instead, they should be placed in a file in - /etc/default, which typically will have thesame + /etc/default, which typically will have the same base name as the init.d script. This extra file should be sourced by the script when the script runs. It must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX - sh format. It should not be a - conffile, but a configuration file maintained by - the package maintainer scripts. See - for more details. + sh format. It may either be a + conffile or a configuration file maintained by + the package maintainer scripts. See for more details.

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