Re: naive user

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:05:50AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing?  Being a naive
> > user I simply copied over the default Debian binary and forgot all
> > about it but I hear rumours that in those in the BSD world have a
> > clean way of handling such things.
> 
> Yes, use dpkg-divert. It even has a manpage :)

Is that a joke? It ain't funny.

The slink version of dpkg _does_ include a manpage for dpgk-divert:

| UNDOCUMENTED(7)            Debian Linux           UNDOCUMENTED(7)
| 
| 
| NAME
|        undocumented  -  No  manpage  for this program, utility or
|        function.
| 
| DESCRIPTION
|        This program, utility or function does not have  a  useful
|        manpage.  Please do not report this as a bug, because this
|        has already been reported as a bug; when a manpage becomes
|        available  it  will be included, and the bug report closed
|        <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.  If you are a competent and
|        accurate  writer and are willing to spend the time reading
|        the source code and writing good manpages please  write  a
|        better  man page than this one. Please contact the package
|        maintainer in order to avoid several people working on the
|        same manpage.

I'll save comments regarding screw ups with dpkg-divert because of its
documentation.


						Marcelo

PS: dpkg-divert _is_ good, you just have to play with it before actually
    using it for anything useful.