On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 12:36, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:31:42PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Is there a central repository of what files have been created by > > packages on the Debian managed part of the filesystem? I just ran into > > the same problem a couple weeks ago over /usr/bin/blackhole, used by the > > blackhole-<mta> packages, but also still around in the old xjokes > > package (now moved to /usr/games after a bug report I filed.) > > Everything actually included in the filesystem archive of a .deb is in > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list. Files created by packages' maintainer scripts > aren't registered (although support for that is apparently planned for a > future version of dpkg). > > > Which also surprises me - I thought I should have had an "attempt to > > overwrite file belonging to another package" with sawfish-pager - I > > didn't see anything. Does dpkg wave off that message when it is looking > > at symlinks? > > No, but it only generates the message if the file it's attempting to > overwrite was actually part of another package (so in > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list). /usr/bin/pager is just created by > update-alternatives, so isn't recorded. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >
Pity - with the number of packages on the go now and an all volunteer team dealing with applications usually generated *elsewhere*, it is almost certain to have collisions in some filenames, particularly non-core names (people tend to remember names like "gcc", "vi" or "emacs".) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
