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