On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 17:12 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > It would be useful in any number of situations to be able > > to "register" a file with dpkg: tell dpkg that a given package owns a > > given file, so that it is automatically removed when the package is > > removed or upgraded. I can see this being used in many postinst > > scripts, so as to simplify or eliminate the corresponding postrm. > > I have wanted this for a long time and would use it in > clamav-unofficial-sigs if it were available. I'd want both registering > and unregistering, since clamav-unofficial-sigs might need to remove > some files. It would be used at both runtime and in maintainer > scripts. So a control file would do for this, I think packages should only be able to register/unregister files from there own package, packages they Replace, or files that are do not belong to any package. Otherwise this feature could be abused. Chris
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