sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:01:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> No, at least not for /etc. You could install the file, the overwrite >> it, but files installed to /etc by dpkg are conffiles and those must >> not be touched programmatically, according to policy. > > i think a better solution (and one that has been proposed in the past) > would be to have a way of providing dpkg with information about such > dynamically created files. this would also be helpful for stuff like > logfiles. > > a fairly straightforward (says he who has not looked at dpkg's source) > would be to provide a new file in the control section of the deb > which contained a series of globs which could be used to match such > files. then, if a query through dpkg -S fails to find an owner of > a file it could go through the potentially longer process of searching > through these files, reporting all matches. > > > > sean
How about allowing conffiles to list files that are generated at install time and are not included in the deb? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]