gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:29:09 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> >>>> I've solved that in the >> >>>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was >> >>>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. >> >>>Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly manually >> >>>placing some file in /usr/include/libfm is pretty ugly, but I would >> >>>still certainly not expect that upgrading the libfm package would remove >> >>>it. >> >>>Is that really good practice? Can packages "own" a directory, so that >> >>>anything that the local admin puts there may be removed automatically? > > Yes, there's no guarantee that a directory belonging to a package > will be there after the next upgrade.
How do I check if a directory belongs to a package? What should package do if it wants to install a file in a directory owned by another package? Thanks, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87obknwgmq....@vostro.rath.org
