On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > It would be useful in any number of situations to be able > to "register" a file with dpkg: tell dpkg that a given package owns a > given file, so that it is automatically removed when the package is > removed or upgraded. I can see this being used in many postinst > scripts, so as to simplify or eliminate the corresponding postrm.
I have wanted this for a long time and would use it in clamav-unofficial-sigs if it were available. I'd want both registering and unregistering, since clamav-unofficial-sigs might need to remove some files. It would be used at both runtime and in maintainer scripts. > (It's possible that some people would want to use this capability in > the sense that a package _upgrade_ preserves the file but package > _removal_ removes it. Or even that upgrade and removal both preserve > the file, but purge removes it. So if there are 3 desirable behaviors > for the same basic feature, maybe that's a sign that it is a bad idea > after all.) I think c-u-s would need files preserved on upgrade but removed on package removal. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6hrvw2bbv1u71zrge0yf4v9jpehzopp92yf4q-goug...@mail.gmail.com
