Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-12 Thread Ilya L Ovchinnikov
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:47:09PM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > "Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > > > That's really fine.

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-09 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > My general rule of thinking about it is: > state is an opion within the program which can be changed and > should be remembered next time. > esp something which reasonably could change every time the program > is used (it is concievable I have a CD today...in a month I am FTP > upgrading) >

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > "Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > > That's really fine. > > > > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > > list

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > And "debian_version" should go to /var. debian_version is static. It should not go to /var. The fact that it "changes" every time you upgrade the entire system does not make it to be less "static". Otherwise we would have to move /usr to /var as well, since it does also c

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? > > Configuration goes in /etc, state goes in /var. Ok. So the information about the configured access method and the list of selected packages should be

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > That's really fine. > > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? Steve Dunham wrote:

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Dunham
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > That's really fine. > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? Configuration g

dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. That's really fine. But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? If these items would be stored in /etc, one could rebuild the system from