RE: Add primitive prefix filter support
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From: ext Sven Joachim [svenjoac@gmx.de]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:29 PM
To: Papp Laszlo (EXT-Symbio/Helsinki)
Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Add primitive prefix filter support
On 2010-11-10 14:37 +0100, ext-laszlo.papp@nokia.com wrote:
> We propose to add this feature to dpkg:
> http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-af/dpkg/commit/72c255d86d37a40d24d33ed784e8f3fbde377427
>
> Current alternatives:
>
> 1) DPkg::Post-Invoke { "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums
> --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; find
> /usr/share/doc/packagename -type f -delete} (just an example)
> (I still have to figure out which package got installed, and for that I
> need to use the "version 2 protocol" between apt and dpkg that man apt.conf
> writes about.)
>
> The problem with the following Post-Invoke hook:
> The files are first written to disk and only then removed. It is better to avoid writing them to disk at all.
>
> 2) Split packages: It depends on the packager(s) and as a user I would like to filter the installation in some way.
>
> Dpkg is missing filter support in general.
> As of version 1.15.8, this is no longer true. Take a look at the
> --path-exclude option which does what you want.
Yeah, we have already discussed it on IRC with 'themill', but thank you. Have a nice day!
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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