On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Andrea Riciputi wrote:
Uhm... I see, so I'm supposed to have been very very lucky... Anyway, could you explain this a little further? You say "according to its database", but which database? Do you mean the .deb file or dpkg keeps track of all the files it has installed since ever, and since /etc/pyxrc was the first file in that directory it removed it?
Yes. dpkg maintains a complete database of the files it has installed. This is how it knows, for example, that a package is attempting to overwrite a file that was already installed by dpkg. It's also one of the reasons why we try to completely isolate fink's /sw tree from the rest of the system, since any changes to files there other than by using dpkg will mess up the dpkg database.
-- Dave
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