Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> writes: > So I do not think there should be a command-line option for this; unless > it would behave like `--add-architecture` and register the setting > somewhere.
Agreed. I also think it needs to be a two-phase thing, because dpkg has to convert its internal database to respect the new aliases. So there should be a desired configuration and then an applied configuration, and the latter is only updated once the database conversion is complete, with dpkg refusing to perform package operations if the desired configuration doesn't match the applied configuration. Even if the command that changes the configuration also does the database conversion, I think we need this, since I don't believe it's possible to do the database conversion atomically (or at least it would involve extra complexity that I don't think we want), so we have to handle the database conversion being interrupted. > I do not think this should be a configuration file (unless you suggest > supporting other values or removing individual lines; after all a > configuration file exists to be changed). Are you thinking of perhaps shipping this configuratino somewhere in /usr/lib instead so that it's not marked as a configuration file? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
