Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: wishlist Many packages provide support for locally installed software in /usr/local. For instance, man-db supports locally installed manpages, scripting languages like Python support locally installed modules, fontconfig supports locally installed fonts, and so on. Administrators frequently need to update such packages by hand; alternatively, some packages provide cronjobs and check for updates daily (rather than only when things change).
As a more optimal solution, packages could register file triggers on appropriate paths in /usr/local, and dpkg could provide a means for an administrator to manually trigger those triggers after running "make install" or similar. This way, rather than the administrator needing to manually run mandb, ldconfig, fc-cache, and various other things, they could run a single command to update all interested packages. A simple implementation would just poke all dpkg triggers. A more sophisticated implementation would check for changes since the last invocation. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-1 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-4 ii tar 1.26-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.15.10 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
