On Mon, Feb 23 2009, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> > (1) I use the >> > hooks provided by apt to get the original files from the >> > package >> >> In other words, with ucf you get NOTHING, since there are no original >> files in the package. They are only created temporarily while postinst >> is run. > > i think what you really want[1] is something mentioned earlier back in > the thread, where ucf provides a set of run-hooks that you could > exploit for the purposes of tracking files, thus eliminating > the need for diverting ucf at all.
Patches welcome. People interested in contributing to this discussion, or to development of ucf in general, might be interested in this blog post: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2009/02/24/Rethinking_ucf/ manoj ps: If someone could point me to a howto to enable comments posting for my blog using ikiwiki, I'd be grateful: I am using the comments plugin, but I think something is all whack with my setup -- What's love but a second-hand emotion? Tina Turner Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org