On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:01:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > No, at least not for /etc. You could install the file, the overwrite > it, but files installed to /etc by dpkg are conffiles and those must > not be touched programmatically, according to policy. i think a better solution (and one that has been proposed in the past) would be to have a way of providing dpkg with information about such dynamically created files. this would also be helpful for stuff like logfiles. a fairly straightforward (says he who has not looked at dpkg's source) would be to provide a new file in the control section of the deb which contained a series of globs which could be used to match such files. then, if a query through dpkg -S fails to find an owner of a file it could go through the potentially longer process of searching through these files, reporting all matches. sean
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