Hi there
This is a followup to Debian #583902 which adds
--path-include/--path-exclude flags.
First, this is awesome, thanks!
I was wondering about some related things:
- how are diverts handled, that is what if a package tries to
dpkg-divert an ultimately excluded file, will that be excluded and
skipped?
- I understand that debsums will just work because you strip .list
files as well
- how is integration with APT going to happen? I think APT has an
option to pass random flags to dpkg (DPkg::options I think), but I
wonder whether it would make sense to have an APT variable tracking
list of include/excludes which need to be passed to dpkg on all
calls. Also, this doesn't cover manual installation of packages by
the admin, so perhaps you simply intended to use /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg?
- is there a way to "apply" the includes to an installed
systems/chroots? That is, I expect this will be used during image
builds or on installed systems, so it will probably have to work from
an existing chroot, just after debootstrap for instance (or perhaps
much later); I expect it might be something like:
* update file exclusion filters in some central (config?) file for
dpkg
* apply the filters
- in the same vein, is there a way to track which packages are missing
files as to allow reinstalling them when the filters get updated?
For instance, if I'm stripping all man pages but later decide I want
them, I would remove the filter and reinstall all the relevant
packages, how would list the stripped packages?
Thanks!
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Loïc Minier
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