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#! /bin/sh
set -e
dir=$(pwd)/debian/tests
. $dir/textutils.sh
frame "This test is to check that installing cron (and cron-daemon-common)" \
"keep enventually a previous version of crontab without changes."
echo "================= purge cron and cron-daemon-common ================="
apt-get --yes purge cron cron-daemon-common
echo "========== create the file /etc/crontab with fancy contents ========="
cat > /etc/crontab <<EOF
# Hello, here is a fancy header for an "older" crontab
# Let us see whether an install of packages cron-daemon-common and cron
# will preserve the original file ...
EOF
echo '=== install cron, reply "N" when prompted to replace /etc/crontab ==='
echo "N" | apt-get --yes install cron 2>/dev/null
grep -q "Hello, here is a fancy header for an \"older\" crontab" /etc/crontab
echo "===== cron-daemon-common did preserve older configuration files ====="
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