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

[Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>]

Hello Rusty,

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:13:28 -0600
"Rusty Howell" <rustyhowell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently in an image created with debian package management, dpkg is missing the md5sums in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status for files designated as conffiles.  They are just listed as "newconffile",
> which is an intermediate state when dpkg installs a package with an conf file.  Also, when the
> device first boots the script /usr/sbin/run-postinsts does not cause /var/lib/dpkg/status to update
> those hashes either.
> 
> The problem here is that when using a package feed, all the conf files are listed as "newconffile",
> which will indicate to dpkg to replace them all on the first update.  dpkg will not follow the rules for
> confold, confnew, confdef.

This patch does not apply on the current master branch of oe-core.
Maybe you wrote it on an older commit or on a branch (e.g. kirkstone)?

Also we require you so sign-off the patches you send on the mailing
list ('git commit -s' does that automatically).

Best regards.
-- 
Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com