Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
Frank Küster writes:
> But this would have the consequence that all those files would have to be
> created by dpkg, and clutter /etc.
No files would be created that were not subsequently filled in by a
maintainer script. I don't know where you get the idea that that any
files, empty or otherwise, would be created that are not created now.
> I had understood from John's question that he wanted dpkg just to ignore
> empty files, except that it registers them for the package.
You misunderstood.
> ...change dpkg...
I proposed no changes whatsoever to dpkg.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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