Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

> Martin writes:
>> One possibility would be that the maintainer script which creates the
>> file stores the filename in something like
>> "/var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.createdfiles".
>
> Gaak!  No!  The archive must _only_ be accessed via the packaging
> system tools.

I didn't mean to imply otherwise.  In this scenario, the maintainer
scripts would modify the ".createdfiles" file through packaging system
tools.  Come to think of it, the ".createdfiles" file could even be a
static part of the package.  If it contains a list of all files the
maintainer scripts /potentially/ create, it wouldn't need to be modified
at all.

Even if /var/lib/dpkg/info is not the right place, my point still stands
that it would technically feasible to maintain such a list of created
files for each package. :)

Martin


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