On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Paul Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > > This may be a FAQ but I could not find the answer in the documentation: > > How are directories managed? When does a directory get deleted? What is the > lifetime of a directory? Is a directory owned by a specific package? > In case of apache2, config files present in /etc/apache2/ are "in" apache2.2-common package. Removing this package deletes /etc/apache2/ and all files under it.
> Which packages are alowed to deposit files in a specific directory? What > exactly > are the rules? That is specified in the debian policy. > If a package wants to put files in a directory, how does the package "know" > that the directory will live longer than the file? > You cant "put" files in a directory that does not exist. touch /etc/foo/bar would fail if foo does not exist. Also you cant delete a non empty directory, so a package can assume that directory will live longer than the file(s) that it contain. -- Regards, Harish Badrinath -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
