ports/153024: security/rkhunter should not overwrite /usr/local/etc/rkhunter.conf

[Trond Endrestøl]

The following reply was made to PR ports/153024; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol at ximalas.info>
To: Sofian Brabez <sbrabez at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, Trond.Endrestol at ximalas.info
Subject: Re: ports/153024: security/rkhunter should not overwrite
 /usr/local/etc/rkhunter.conf
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:14:17 +0100 (CET)

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 On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:30+0100, Sofian Brabez wrote:
 
 > Normally security/rkhunter during an update renamed your old 
 > configuration with the following scheme : 
 > ${RKHINST_ETC_DIR}rkhunter.conf`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`, so your old 
 > configuration is never delete or overwrite.
 
 Lucky for me I store all my configuration files in CVS. I don't see 
 this happen, could it be due to portupgrade, which probably deinstalls 
 the port, then (re)installs the port, thus (re)creating a plain 
 configuration file?
 
 I believe the consensus is that no configuration file should be 
 automatically removed during deinstall of any ports, and only sample 
 configuration files should be installed by the ports.
 
 In my case I just rename the plain configuration file, perform a cvs 
 update, and if necessary merge the differences and commit a new 
 version. To me this is fine.
 
 
 Trond.
 
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