Sorry for the delayed answer, last couple of months were very busy for me. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 04:30:16PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > there appears to be no way to dictate that a file installed by a package > must not be part of the system.
You should be able to do the following: - create a /etc/cruft/explain/dpkg script which simply runs /usr/lib/cruft/explain/dpkg but filters out from its stdout the file(s) you deleted from the system. Something like: #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/cruft/explain/dpkg | egrep -v '^/the/file/you/hate$' - create a /etc/cruft/explain/MY_HATED_FILES which echoes to FD 4 the paths you don't want to exist. Something like: #!/bin/sh echo '/the/file/you/hate' >&4 Don't forget to chmod+x the scripts. As documented in the README file, the first script should override whatever the stock dpkg explain script prints. The latter one should make sure you get a complaint when the file reappears. I would be grateful if you could test whether that indeed works and let me know. regards, -- Marcin Owsiany <[email protected]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
