Re: Proposal regarding future packaging
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:46:26 -0600, Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> said:
> On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote:
>> 21-09-2007, Bruce Sass:
>> > On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote:
>> >> 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass:
>> >> > I'm hoping the dpkg "triggers" functionality Ian Jackson has
>> >> > been working on will help solve that wart though.
>> >>
>> >> How exactly?
>> >
>> > Exactly? I don't know. I haven't followed what is happening close
>> > enough.
>> >
>> > Basically, it allows a package to toss up a flag saying, `I'm here
>> > and <something> needs to be done.' It may require some convention
>> > and a little more infrastructure, but that is close to letting a
>> > package say, `add these paths to the list of paths which I
>> > control.'
>>
>> Sure. But i thought, we are talking about finding/listing of
>> generated files.
> It is not feasible (imo) to automatically find files created by
> maintainer scripts. Having packages append <package>.list themselves
> would (afaict) require they know too much about dpkg's internal
> operation, and all packages generating files would need to implement
> the algorithm.
> However, maintainer scripts can easily pass a list of generated paths
> on to a shared piece of code which dpkg controls. "triggers" looks
> like it could be the mechanism by which a package flags that it has
> generated files, and by which dpkg exerts control.
But this does not address the case of a file shared by many
packages but really owned by none.
manoj
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