UCF.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux manual UCF.CONF(5)
NAME
ucf.conf - site-wide configuration file for ucf
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ucf.conf
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/ucf.conf is actually a Bourne Shell snippet included dur-
ing the package build process, and hence you may put any shell direc-
tive in that file (just make very sure you know what you are doing).
All the variables have reasonable default values, and some may be over-
ridden 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 environ-
ment variable. These values override the config file and the de-
faults.
d) Using script command line options. All configurable variables may be
set by this method, and will override the other methods above.
Configuration File options
At the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are:
DEBUG Debugging information: The default value is 0 (no de-
bugging 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 de-
fault 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 histor-
ical md5sums are looked for in either the file
${filename}.md5sum, or the subdirectory ${file-
name}.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
Files
System-wide defaults are placed in /etc/ucf.conf,
SEE ALSO
ucf(1),
BUGS
There are no bugs. Any resemblance thereof is delirium. Really.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
Debian Feb 12 2002 UCF.CONF(5)