On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:19 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> > - Treat the file as though it were shipped in the package directly.
> > This means it is removed on package upgrade, as well as on package
> > removal. This is very straightforwar
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> - Treat the file as though it were shipped in the package directly.
> This means it is removed on package upgrade, as well as on package
> removal. This is very straightforward (append the filename to
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/{foo}.list), b
]] Peter Samuelson
| - Treat the file as though it were shipped in the package directly.
| This means it is removed on package upgrade, as well as on package
| removal. This is very straightforward (append the filename to
| /var/lib/dpkg/info/{foo}.list), but perhaps not too useful.
This
[Roger Leigh]
> By registering the file as I create it, I completely avoid the
> breakage potential of complex and poorly-tested postrm logic--it's
> completely removed. It also means that other packages can't
> arbitrarily overwrite it. It would certainly be very useful for
> e.g. generated fil
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 08:32:46PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 17:12 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> >
> > > It would be useful in any number of situations to be able
> > > to "register" a file with dpkg: tell dpkg
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 17:12 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> > It would be useful in any number of situations to be able
> > to "register" a file with dpkg: tell dpkg that a given package owns a
> > given file, so that it is automatically remove
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> It would be useful in any number of situations to be able
> to "register" a file with dpkg: tell dpkg that a given package owns a
> given file, so that it is automatically removed when the package is
> removed or upgraded. I can see this b
[Christopher Baines]
> I would consider the best solution to be a mixture of the two, so the
> symbolic package handles fetching the data, but then tells dpkg what
> files its putting where.
I don't really care that much about huge data packages, but this jumped
out at me. It would be useful in
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