On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:37:04AM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:13:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > > > not build a proper debian package when installing non-free software? > > > > How can they do so? Installing a package with 'dpkg -i' in the postinst > > of another package isn't possible, since dpkg's status area is locked. > > Jumping in late here, but what about installing a list of files with the > package that, if existing on the system, are considered to be part of > that package; and so when the package is removed, they are removed with > it. > > It could be something like debian/track where 'track' is a list of files > to be tracked by this package as if they were contained within it when > it was built (even though they are actually downloaded during the package's > postinst or by another script)
Sounds like the old dpkg-registerfile idea (or whatever it was called), and it would be useful for other purposes as well. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]