bionic (5) ucf.conf.5.gz

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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 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.

Configuration File options

       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

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.