On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 03:29:41AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I felt like doing some scripting over the weekend, and managed
> to come up with "cruft", version 0.9 of which is available from
> http://va.debian.org/~ajt/ in i386 .deb format, or as deb-source.
>
[snipout some presentations]
> dpkg's database
> the alternatives database
> user's home directories
> rc.d scripts
> lost+found files
> /usr/local files
> /home/ftp files
>
> (and then goes ahead and just accepts everything in /dev, /etc, /usr/src,
> and /var/www because I couldn't think of good ways to determine what
> should be in them :( )
>
There also lot's of stuff in /var/spool /var/cache and /var/log, not?
> It's also possible to add local "explanations" for files, for example
> my system has an unpack-the-tgz installation of a program called "possum"
> in /home/possum, so I've added a short script that produces a list of
> all those files in /usr/local/lib/cruft/explain/possum, which cruft
> automatically includes in its considerations.
>
Call it a Good Thing <TM> :)
>
> I'd appreciate it if some of you kind folks would be willing to have a
> look through it and perhaps run it over your system and if you can
> either give me some procedures for making sense of a few more files that
> are left lying around on your system; or suggestions on improving the
> output format.
I'll do, for sure...
> I'd _really_ like some way of working out what stuff should be in /etc,
> and what stuff shouldn't, but a number of the files in there are made
> in postinsts and I couldn't come up with a nice way of dealing with that.
What about a dpkg service who looks like that:
dpkg --add-file [--package <package>] <files...>
and can be call from post-inst?
This can go from a simple 'echo <files...> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>.lists'
to a more checkfull options with conflict checking. I think it can be better than
all this {mkdir,rmdir} /usr/local/.. stuff in post-{inst,rm} and add control to the
system, especially if we can have a special local.list to avoid dpkg overwriting local
files.
[This not help for Contents.gz but are better than an other Conffiles like field in
the control]
IMHO, dpkg --remove-file [--package <package>] <files...> will only be useful with
the local pseudo package of dpkg
Just my 2c. Seems really good works...
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
Fab.
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