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 -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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