Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raul> This only works if the name of the file can be anticipated at
Raul> package creation time, and where it's not confusing to do
Raul> so. But, yes, in that case it's a much better approach.
Hmm. You have a point. I did not consider the case where the
file name would eb determined at install time.
Raul> Then again, the only case I can think of where this approach
Raul> doesn't work very well is magicfilter, and those should probably
Raul> be treated as conffiles.
Well, in order to be a conffile, one would need the name a
priori, I think.
>> Don't even think about changing dpkg internal files using anything
>> but dpkg.
Raul> dpkg, the package suite, or dpkg the binary executable?
Either, though I would only feel comfortable woth something in
the dpkg package itself, not extraneous add-on packages.
Raul> [Even there, until dpkg has a track record of getting the
Raul> installation right and not messing up, it's perfectly reasonable
Raul> for the *system administrator* to muck with these files. I know
Raul> we're talking about package maintainer activities at the moment,
Raul> but I think this point has been made incorrectly, too many
Raul> times.]
Oh, sure, their machine, their rules. They are perfectly free
to do rm -rf / as well; who are we to argue? But no program should
ever have the temerity to do so; unless it has been blessed by the
dpkg consortium.
Personally, on my machine, I refrain from ever modifying the
/var/lib/dpkg/ directory outside of dpkg/dselect. I also do not do rm
-rf /; but that is just me. Other people may well be more daring.
manoj
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