On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:35:03PM -0400, peek wrote: > place. It just seems a little cleaner: you could query dpkg for what > package *every* file came from -- no files left out; and you don't what about rotated log files? pid files? lock files? misc stuff in /var/cache? that's not to bash the suggestion of a dpkg-install-file. in fact i think it would be a great addition. better than what i suggested for the specific problem of dynamically created config files, anyway. On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:34:35PM -0400, peek wrote: > The idea of a glob makes me nervous. There's been plenty of times I've > accidentaly gotten extra files listed in a glob to ls or find that I > didn't intend to. the proposal as i framed it would do nothing dangerous with the globs. certainly there would be no passing of said globs to an rm -rf; they were only to serve as informational to an admin asking "where the heck did this file come from?" sean
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