Re: Tracking installs
MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after
> dpkg does it's configuration.
You can archive everything under /etc for that (config files).
Anything else done in postinst will be recreated correctly
when you reinstall.
> 2) dpkg won't track non-deb packages - such as tarballs.
Then don't do that. :-)
Package them up as .deb's and get a developer interested in doing
it.
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