Anthony Towns writes ("PROPOSAL: Extrafiles (was Re: Conffiles...)"):
> On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 12:47:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Instead, we should introduce a file called extra files to list
> > files that the package may generate in maintainer scripts or in
> > normal operations which are not listed in pkg.list. We may exclude
> > files under /var/run and /var/log entirely.
>
> As it turns out, this is a much more flexible solution for my purposes
> anyway, so I've spent a little time over the past couple of days
> trying to find a nice way of doing it.
Anthony's proposal is by and large the Right Answer, IMO.
However, I disagree with the proposed syntax for the extrafiles
control area file. I think the file should contain plain glob
patterns a la fnmatch(3) (with * matching /). The patterns should all
start with /.
I agree with the people who said later on in the discussion that if
several packages own a file they should all declare it.
Should dpkg --purge automatically remove such files, as it does for
conffiles ? I think not.
Ian.
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