On 18/05/2016 02:05, Juergen Harms wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 01:33 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote:
>> Did you upgrade backuppc from sources or some distribution packages?
>   From the Mageia distro - there may be an explanation in that. But at
> that time I had been maintainer for BackupPC in Mageia - the distro
> package was essentially the wrapped out tarball.
>
> Lets not put too much weight on this - my memory is not 100%, lets just
> keep the argument that there is a consideration to be aware of.
>
It seems there are a couple of methods packages are moving towards these 
days (at least in debian):
1) The default installed config file should not be modified by the admin 
(but it can be if they really want to and deal with the resulting 
upgrade issues later).
2) The default config includes all config files from a subdirectory. The 
local admin is suggested to create (one or more) config files here, with 
local config entries which will over-ride the global defaults.
3) It is possible the local package management system might do one of:
a) Modify the global default config to customise paths of binaries, or 
specify local package relevant config
b) Create a file in the local config over-ride directory which will then 
hold all the "relevant" configs for the local system. This file can 
in-turn be over-ridden rather than locally modified if the config 
snippets are read in a pre-determined fashion (eg, alphabetic order, or 
numeric prefix order, etc).

This is something I could see as being very useful, and has minimal 
modifications to the existing setup/configs.

PS, you could also "test" each fragment for syntax before attempting to 
load it.... What to do on a syntax error may vary (either log and 
ignore, or log and error)....

Regards,
Adam

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