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diff --git a/man/deb-conffiles.man b/man/deb-conffiles.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5150ddc --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-conffiles.man @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +.\" dpkg manual page - deb-conffiles(5) +.\" +.\" Copyright © 2016-2017 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> +.\" +.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +. +.TH deb\-conffiles 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" +.nh +.SH NAME +deb\-conffiles \- package conffiles +. +.SH SYNOPSIS +conffiles +. +.SH DESCRIPTION +A package declares its list of conffiles by including a \fIconffiles\fP file +in its control archive (i.e. \fIDEBIAN/conffiles\fP during package creation). +.PP +This file contains a list of files, one per line. +They should be listed as absolute pathnames, and should exist in the binary +package, otherwise \fBdpkg\fP(1) will ignore them (although by default +\fBdpkg\-deb\fP(1) will refuse to build such binary packages). +Trailing whitespace will be trimmed, and empty lines will be ignored. +. +.SH EXAMPLE +.nf +%CONFDIR%/alternatives/README +%CONFDIR%/cron.daily/dpkg +%PKGCONFDIR%/dpkg.cfg +%CONFDIR%/logrotate.d/dpkg +.fi +. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR dpkg\-deb (1), +.BR dpkg (1). |