Re: files who won't tell who their parent packages are
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:38:01PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Is it therefore true that there can be some files, say created by
> scripts, who have laundered their origins, so that there is no record
> of what caused them to get there,
Yes. Consider a fair percentage of /var.
> and being that they arrived via installation of a package, that some
> better way should be invented of keeping track of them...
dpkg-registerfile has been proposed. However it can only help with a few
individual files created in maintainer scripts, and won't handle the
general case. For that, you often require common sense.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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