On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:40:48PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 09:22 +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > Can you point me at an example reported file and package which owns it, > > so that I can actually learn how ucf works? I have a very vague idea of > > how it does what it does... > > gpm and /etc/gpm.conf
Looks like this is an issue similar to #21104, with the comment in #366616 also applying to it. In this case, the problem will appear in the following situation: - imagine there is a bug in gpm such that it fails to unregister and remove /etc/gpm.conf on purge, - assume that cruft ignores all ucf-installed conffiles based on the ucf database, rather than the information provided by gpm - gpm gets purged - suddenly /etc/gpm.conf becomes useless, but cruft fails to report it as cruft If there was some association between the files registered in ucf and the name of the package which registered them, then perhaps this could be automated somewhat. I could then perhaps (without considering any corner cases carefully) imagine ignoring ucf-registered files coming from packages that are currently installed. But without such association, I think we're stuck with specifying ucf-installed conffiles in per-package explain/filter files. :-/ -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
