Hi!
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 09:25:13 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.
Right, and this fact is already documented in the man page:
,---
--path-exclude=glob-pattern
--path-include=glob-pattern
Set glob-pattern as a path filter, either by excluding
or re-including previously excluded paths matching the
specified patterns during install.
[...]
`---
> 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've clarified a bit the DESCRIPTION section of the dpkg man page (for my
next push), besides that I don't really see any problem here.
regards,
guillem
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