Hi, On Wed, 04 Feb 2009, Jonathan Steel wrote: > I ran into a situation when creating some custom debs that may not be > the best solution. I believe dpkg is working according to the rule that > all files that go into /etc are considered conffiles, and are listed in > /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.conffiles. When you remove the package, these > conf files are not removed, and the stay listed in the package.list > file. This makes sense to me. > > However, when creating some custom packages that are installed into a > non standard spot, I have some files I don't think should be considered > conf files. Specifically, I have installed a library into /opt/pkgs, and > so ldconfig needs to know how to find it. My solution was to create a > file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/package.conf installed by the package so that > ldconfig knows to search that location. When I remove the package, I > would think that this file should be removed as well, but its not > because its considered a conf file. > > Is there a way that I can tell the package its not a conf file?
Don't list it in the "conffiles" filelist. However dh_installdeb doesn't let you select manually the files. You have to manually tweak debian/<pkg>/DEBIAN/conffiles _after_ the dh_installdeb call. Note that [email protected] is meant to discuss the development of dpkg. Your question was better suited to [email protected]. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
