Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:33:47AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 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.
What were you planning to do on upgrade? Normally, dpkg would set the
files back to empty.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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