On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:38:01PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Is it therefore true that there can be some files, say created by > scripts, who have laundered their origins, so that there is no record > of what caused them to get there,
Yes. Consider a fair percentage of /var. > and being that they arrived via installation of a package, that some > better way should be invented of keeping track of them... dpkg-registerfile has been proposed. However it can only help with a few individual files created in maintainer scripts, and won't handle the general case. For that, you often require common sense. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
