Hi, 2011/5/16 Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org>: > Hi, > > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> (small) ping with question... >> >> Are you going to consider implementing purge_dir to >> dpkg-maintscript-helper or should I do it directly in >> php5-<sapi>.postinst scripts? (Both options are OK for me.) > > I'm definitely interested into providing a standardized > solution with dpkg-maintscript-helper until dpkg can > support this natively. > > I'm just not sure what the correct solution is. Instead of purge_dir maybe > the right answer is "manage-manual-conffile" and/or > "manage-manual-file". And it would drop the file on removal/purge and try > to remove the parent directories if they are no longer owned. > > For now, the "preinst/prerm/postinst" would be a no-op but the postrm > would do the removal. Later when we can tell dpkg that the package > installed some manual files, the registration would happen in postinst > and in the other scripts the command would become a no-op since > dpkg itself would do the removal.
Sounds good. The only problem I see is that it could be "files" (as in /var/log/<package>), so maybe a pattern is needed? Something like: dpkg-maintscript-helper manage-manual-files /var/log/<package>/*.log* Or maybe I am overcomplicating stuff and we already know how to handle logfiles and this is really for low-number of files. Anyway I think that my patch would work just like that, just rename the purge_dir to what you like :) O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> http://blog.rfc1925.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
