Tweak to Config.pm for Debian distro's and CustomFunctions.

[Julian Field]

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This will be in the next release.

James A. Pattie wrote:

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> Hi guys,
>
>        Resending since it doesn't seem Julian saw this and the change
> is still needed
> for Debian based distros.
>
>
>
>        I just recently updated a CustomFunction application I've
> debianized
> and was wondering why the old code was still being run.  Turns out that
> even though I said to replace the
> /etc/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/customfunction.pm file (not really the
> real name) with the new one, dpkg left a customfunction.pm.dpkg-old file
> around which MailScanner was happily sourcing in and running, instead of
> the newer code.
>
>        I updated the exclusion check in Config.pm to ignore the
> .dpkg-{old,new,dist} extensions so this doesn't happen in the future.
>
>        Please review and apply the attached patch.
>
> - --
> James A. Pattie
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>
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>--- Config.pm   2004-10-21 14:03:00.000000000 -0500
>+++ Config.pm.new       2004-12-06 15:12:02.000000000 -0600
>@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
>
>   while(defined($filename = $dirh->read)) {
>     # Skip all dot files and rpmnew files
>-    next if $filename =~ /^\./ || $filename =~ /\.rpmnew$/i;
>+    next if $filename =~ /^\./ || $filename =~ /\.(rpmnew|dpkg-dist|dpkg-new|dpkg-old)$/i;
>     $fullfile = "$dir/$filename";
>     next unless -f $fullfile and -s $fullfile;
>     eval { require $fullfile; };
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