Hi, On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Trent W. Buck wrote: > 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.
--path-include/exclude apply for "installation" of packages (i.e. dpkg's operations) and not for the other operations delegated to dpkg-deb. The opposite can be also very misleading... suppose you have a few --path-* options in /etc/dpkg.cfg and you want to extract a package in a temporary directory, you would have only a part of it when you expected all of it. I think we should fix the documentation rather than change the behaviour. Or if we change the behaviour, then we have to have to add new options --reset-path-filters and/or --no-load-cfg. > I don't want dpkg to waste CPU and I/O extracting the other files. You can use something more elaborate with "dpkg --fsys-tarfile | tar -x" and a few --include/--exclude tar options. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
