ports/90988: sane-backends overwrites and installed snapscan.conf file

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Quoting Marcus Alves Grando <mnag at FreeBSD.org>:

> Synopsis: sane-backends overwrites and installed snapscan.conf file
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open
> State-Changed-By: mnag
> State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 19 02:30:30 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Feedback timeout and no fix available.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90988
> 

I have sent feeedback (but no fix). Unfortunately, it seems that the feedback
message didn't make it to GNATS for some reason.
Original message below:
Quoting Edwin Groothuis <edwin at FreeBSD.org>:

> Synopsis: sane-backends overwrites and installed snapscan.conf file
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: edwin
> State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 7 06:56:55 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Can you see if you can make patches for this problem?

I have been thinking about this problem for some days now.
Honestly, I don't know how to do this.
I understand the problem (ie. do not overwrite a configuration file if it has
been changed) but I do not know how to do that with ports. I have read the
porters handbook lightly, perhaps I need to read it more deeply again.
If my understanding is correct, the new snapscan.conf file should be copied as
snapscan.conf.sample (if a snapscan.conf file exist already), that part is
quite
easy.
What about the other configuration files? As far as I can tell, sane-backends
has a total of 58 configuration files that could possibly be edited by the
user.
Should a patch handle all of them?

Where can I find help from others with this question?
-- 
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

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