Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-devel@pipeline.com> schrieb:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:00:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> ...and having a lot of empty files in /etc is just pointless.
>> >
>> > Where would any empty files come from?
>>
>> How should a package tell dpkg to install an empty file, if it needs
>> that?
>>
>> Regards, Frank
> Hi Frank,
> man touch
Which does not help in this context. The question was: "How can files
that are (perhaps) created by maintainer scripts be registered to dpkg?",
and one answer was: "By including them in the deb as empty files".
But this would have the consequence that all those files would have to
be created by dpkg, and clutter /etc. I had understood from John's
question that he wanted dpkg just to ignore empty files, except that it
registers them for the package. But this would make it impossible for a
package to ship an empty file. Indeed, it could create it in a
maintainer script, but that's plain rubbish - change dpkg to do
illogical things, and then work around this in maintainer
scripts. Better find an other way to register those files (there have
been proposals).
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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