PM: conffiles gets into the way of sourcing

[MingcongBai]

When using dpkg or rpm to install autobuild3, it is possible that the package manager will attempt to ask about (dpkg), or simply preserve (rpm) user's old configuration files. However, this process will leave user with *.dpkg-dist, *.dpkg-orig, or *.dist files (last one from RPM).

Not only that, if one chooses to backup a configuration file, say, packaging.bak, autobuild will still attempt to source that, and of course, it will succeed in doing that. Put in the consideration on file sorting, it is true that autobuild will source those files with "extensions" (autobuild3 runs on C locale so this is not a variable).

Can we just to use shopt -s extglob and exclude ALL files with extenstions; or simply, set the only files to be sources (a whitelist to be said).

[Artoria2e5]

Use extglob. It should look like recsr blah/*!(.dpkg*|dist).

[MingcongBai]

Use extglob. It should look like recsr blah/!(.dpkg|dist).

Sounds good.