Re: Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> <p>
> >> The <prgn>DEBIAN</prgn> directory will not appear in the
> >> file system archive of the package, and so won't be installed
> >> - by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is installed.
> >> + by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is unpacked.
> >> </p>
>
> > Technically, it's unpacked: not in /DEBIAN but in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/
> > and then moved to /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.* at the end of the unpack
> > phase but it's probably not worth pointing out in policy (or only as a
> > footnote).
>
> Is this true of all files in the control.tar.gz other than DEBIAN/control,
> even ones unknown to dpkg?
Yes, it only has a blacklist of files that it won't install (like "list"
since it's for internal use).
The directory might be /var/lib/dpkg/info/tmp.ci/ in fact to ensure that
it's on the same filesystem and can be moved around with rename.
> It does seem like it would be worth documenting /var/lib/dpkg/info
> somewhere non-normative.
No opinion.
Cheers,
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