Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] debian packaging: set md5sums for conffiles

[Rusty Howell <rustyhowell@gmail.com>]

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Thanks for the quick responses.   It took us a while to figure out why we
were seeing weird behaviour with our products, and we ultimately figured
out the conffiles are being replaced during the update.   I am working off
of Hardknott currently, so that's my mistake not switching to master.  And
I guess I misunderstood who is allowed to "sign off" on patches. I assumed
I couldn't since I'm not a regular. But in any case, it looks like Ross
Burton may be on to a better solution than what I have to fix the issue.

Rusty

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 8:09 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> wrote:

> > So we’re definitely not generating the DEBIAN/md5sums files that
> dpkg-deb likes to have. However, this file in proper Debian packages
> doesn’t contain hashes for the conffiles, so I can only imagine that dpkg
> generates them on install, which leads to the question of where that is
> meant to happen.
>
> dpkg —configure does this, but we’re neutering it by renaming all
> foo.dpkg-new files to foo in the deb install() function.
>
> If we’re going to rename foo.dpkg-new to foo, then that is where we go and
> update the status file.
>
> Alternatively, we don’t do that, and every package needs to run its
> configure step on first boot.
>
> Ross
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