On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:39:56 +0100 Stacho Mudrak <s.m@speleo.sk> wrote:
1. If installation will overwrite these files - than user will loose it's settings.
I think we could check for the files. If they exist in rigth places, we could assume they are good, so install script a) does nothing b) rename them to .bkp (or .new, as suggested by Ladislav) -no settings are loosed. BTW, why the files can be on so many directories? I think they should be under /etc on *nix and under Program files\therion on windows. It would be simpler. May be Wookey, as debian developer, knows it better. I found some debian packages who ask when detected user-edited configuration files, (but at this moment I can't remember which ones) If this is a matter of shell scripting, I could work on it.
2. If it will not overwrite them, plain user will not have ability to set up new things.
I'm missing something here. What things couldn't be edited? Or, do you mean that install will ask things to set good values? Regards, Roman