Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:00:47PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> ...and having a lot of empty files in /etc is just pointless. >> > >> > Where would any empty files come from? >> >> How should a package tell dpkg to install an empty file, if it needs >> that? >> >> Regards, Frank > Hi Frank, > man touch
Which does not help in this context. The question was: "How can files that are (perhaps) created by maintainer scripts be registered to dpkg?", and one answer was: "By including them in the deb as empty files". But this would have the consequence that all those files would have to be created by dpkg, and clutter /etc. I had understood from John's question that he wanted dpkg just to ignore empty files, except that it registers them for the package. But this would make it impossible for a package to ship an empty file. Indeed, it could create it in a maintainer script, but that's plain rubbish - change dpkg to do illogical things, and then work around this in maintainer scripts. Better find an other way to register those files (there have been proposals). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
