On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:19:35AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> The following is probably a dpkg or policy matter that I do not understand.
> Can you explain it to me?
>
> [10:12:54 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /var/cache/man
> dpkg: /var/cache/man not found.
See the relevant bits from /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst:
catdir="/var/cache/man"
if [ -d $catdir ]
then echo " Removing catpages as well as $catdir hierarchy."
rm -rf $catdir 2>/dev/null || true
fi
install -d -g root -m 02755 -o man $catdir
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > If man-db is responsible for /var/cache/man then dpkg should know about it.
>
> No.
Actually, he means that it is not necessary for dpkg to know about a
directory that a package is responsible for -- the package can create it and
remove it in its p* scripts. As man-db does in this case.
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