Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.7 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/dpkg I wanted to run logcheck on my centralized logging server, to which syslog messages are sent. Further, I wanted to see this with the logcheck exclusions provided by individual packages. To this end, I fetched the relevant packages and from them tried to extract the etc/logcheck parts, e.g.
$ rm -rf target $ aptitude download postgrey Get:1 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/ unstable/main postgrey all 1.32-6.1 [59.3 kB] Fetched 59.3 kB in 0s (0 B/s) $ dpkg -x --path-exclude=* --path-include=/etc/logcheck/* postgrey_1.32-6.1_all.deb target/ $ find target -type f target/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/postgrey target/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/postgrey target/etc/init.d/postgrey target/usr/sbin/policy-test target/usr/sbin/postgrey target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README.Debian target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/TODO.Debian target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README.exim target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/copyright target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/changelog.Debian.gz target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/changelog.gz target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/postgrey_clients_dump target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/README target/usr/share/doc/postgrey/NEWS.Debian.gz target/usr/share/postgrey/whitelist_clients.md5sum target/usr/share/postgrey/postgrey-default target/usr/share/postgrey/whitelist_recipients target/usr/share/postgrey/whitelist_clients target/usr/share/postgrey/postgrey-default.md5sum target/usr/share/postgrey/whitelist_recipients.md5sum target/usr/share/man/man8/postgrey.8.gz target/usr/share/man/man8/policy-test.8.gz target/usr/share/man/man1/postgreyreport.1.gz target/usr/bin/postgreyreport I don't want dpkg to waste CPU and I/O extracting the other files. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org