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

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

The following reply was made to PR ports/90988; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo at start.no>
To: tingo at start.no
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/90988: sane-backends overwrites and installed snapscan.conf file
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:18:48 +0100 (CET)

 ----- Forwarded message from Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo at start.no> -----
 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:25:04 +0100 (CET)
 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo at start.no>
 Reply-To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo at start.no>
 Subject: Re: ports/90988: sane-backends overwrites and installed snapscan.conf file
 To: Marcus Alves Grando <mnag at FreeBSD.org>
 
 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988
 >
 
 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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