Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades
Hi,
>>"Stephen" == Stephen J Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> writes:
Stephen> If I edit poff (which I have) then I update ppp to the latest version,
Stephen> should I expect my poff to not be replaced with the new version in
Stephen> the package?
Stephen> why should this NOT be so for entire directory trees?
You are talking about conffiles, where dpkg takes extra care
not to clobber stuff. You want to do that for every file? How
much extra time do you have on your hands? I though we were
talking about slow machines here?
What is wrong with a 18 line shell script that does this for
the doc and info trees and can be run out of cron? Why should
eveyrhing go into dpkg, so that the behaviour changes for everyone,
willy-nilly?
manoj
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was asked was if we had exploding television sets. You see, they
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