ucf.conf - site-wide configuration file for ucf
The file /etc/ucf.conf is actually a Bourne Shell
snippet included during the package build process, and hence you may put any
shell directive in that file (just make very sure you know what you are
doing).
All the variables have reasonable default values, and some may be
overridden on a per run or a per individual basis by using environment
variables, and all configurable variables can be overridden by options to
the scripts themselves.
The value of a variable can be set so:
- a)
- Defaults exist in the rules file. These are the values used if no
customization is done.
- b)
- Some variables can be set in the config file /etc/ucf.conf. These
values override the defaults.
- c)
- Some variables can also be set by setting a corresponding environment
variable. These values override the config file and the defaults.
- d)
- Using script command line options. All configurable variables may be set
by this method, and will override the other methods above.
At the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are:
- DEBUG
- Debugging information: The default value is 0 (no debugging information is
printed). To enable debugging output, set the value to 1.
- VERBOSE
- Verbosity: The default value is 0 (quiet). To change the default behavior,
set the value to 1.
- conf_force_conffold
- Force the installed file to be retained. The default is to have this
variable unset, which makes the script ask in case of doubt. This can be
overridden by the environment variable UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD
- conf_force_conffnew
- Force the installed file to be overridden. The default is to have this
variable unset, which makes the script ask in case of doubt. This can be
overridden by the environment variable UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW
- conf_source_dir
- This is the directory where the historical md5sums for a file are looked
for. Specifically, the historical md5sums are looked for in either the
file ${filename}.md5sum, or the subdirectory
${filename}.md5sum.d/
- conf_old_mdsum_file
- Force the historical md5sums to be read from this file, rather than
defaulting to living in the source directory. Setting this option
overrides settings in the environment variable
UCF_OLD_MDSUM_FILE
System-wide defaults are placed in /etc/ucf.conf,
There are no bugs. Any resemblance thereof is delirium.
Really.
This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava
<srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.