Hello all, This is not precisely on-topic for this list, as I am not looking to package this stuff for debian (yet), but other lists seemed even less appropriate. Sorry about that.
The reason I am writing is that a company I work for (all debian shop - yay!) uses a package to ease administration and set up working defaults and users and so forth. This package ships a lot of application- specific files in it that hopelessly violate policy. They exist simply to patch config files for other packages, or add logcheck-ignore rules, or the like. What I want to do is add a hook into apt (probably something in apt.conf.d) that would see if we are either installing a package that we have files for, or have already installed a package that we have files for, and then take the appropriate action. To do so, I ned to know a little more about apt's guts than I do currently, I'm afraid, and I was hoping someone could point me to a good reference guide about how apt calls external programs (like apt-listchanges) and parsing the syntax that apt calls with and that sort of thing. Hopefully I've been clear enough - I only have a rough roadmap in my head at this point. Other suggestions for smarter ways of doing this would be welcome as well. Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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