Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:23:16AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files could not be
> > included in the package empty and filled in by the scripts. This would
> > identify the files as belonging to the package and also allow dpkg to
> > remove them, eliminating the need for the postrm to do so.
>
> The overhead in doing this is stupid, and having a lot of empty files in /etc
> is just pointless.
But we could be doing that if it worked. It doesn't. Hint: empty files, as
well as missing files, are valid states of a conffile and dpkg would act
accordingly.
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