Re: dpkg and selinux
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:19:21AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:12:42AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > What happens to those files the package's postinst creates?
>
> > Such as debconf-maintained configuration files, symlinks, etc. How
> > do those get selinux policy?
>
> to be honest, i don't rightly know.
>
> _hopefully_ they are mentioned in the dpkg -L <packagename> listing
> such that they can be managed.
>
> i assume that if they're not listed in the dpkg -L <packagename>
> listing that that's a bug in the package, because when the time
> comes for that package to be purged, symlinks would be left behind.
>
> .... or, is there something that's been missed?
>
> does dpkg -L not include debconf-maintained configuration files?
No, dpkg -L does not include such files. No, it's not a bug in the
package. There's no support yet for registering these files with dpkg.
P.S. Could you *please* trim your quotes down a little more? Thanks. :-)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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