On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:36:38PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [20001120 15:12]:
> > Another thing to consider is whether its desirable for this to be
> > dynamic, or whether it would be better to just mirror the
> > debian/conffiles in some way.
> This wouldn't work because e.g. /etc/passwd is no conffile.
> Furthermore, it wouldn't work for files using update-alternatives.
Mirror as in duplicate, separately. Something like:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/
base-passwd.extrafiles:
/etc/passwd
dpkg.extrafiles:
/etc/alternatives/*
nvi.extrafiles:
/usr/bin/vi
vim.extrafiles:
/usr/bin/vi
for example.
I didn't mean to imply there was any stronger analogy between conffiles
and other things to be registered than that they could be recorded in
similar files.
Cheers,
aj
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