On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:19:21AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:12:42AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > What happens to those files the package's postinst creates? > > > Such as debconf-maintained configuration files, symlinks, etc. How > > do those get selinux policy? > > to be honest, i don't rightly know. > > _hopefully_ they are mentioned in the dpkg -L <packagename> listing > such that they can be managed. > > i assume that if they're not listed in the dpkg -L <packagename> > listing that that's a bug in the package, because when the time > comes for that package to be purged, symlinks would be left behind. > > .... or, is there something that's been missed? > > does dpkg -L not include debconf-maintained configuration files?
No, dpkg -L does not include such files. No, it's not a bug in the package. There's no support yet for registering these files with dpkg. P.S. Could you *please* trim your quotes down a little more? Thanks. :-) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
