On Sat September 22 2007 12:16:18 am Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: > 21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: > > On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: > >> 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: > >> > I'm hoping the dpkg "triggers" functionality Ian Jackson has > >> > been working on will help solve that wart though. > >> > >> How exactly? > > > > Exactly? I don't know. I haven't followed what is happening close > > enough. > > > > Basically, it allows a package to toss up a flag saying, `I'm here > > and <something> needs to be done.' It may require some convention > > and a little more infrastructure, but that is close to letting a > > package say, `add these paths to the list of paths which I > > control.' > > Sure. But i thought, we are talking about finding/listing of > generated files.
It is not feasible (imo) to automatically find files created by maintainer scripts. Having packages append <package>.list themselves would (afaict) require they know too much about dpkg's internal operation, and all packages generating files would need to implement the algorithm. However, maintainer scripts can easily pass a list of generated paths on to a shared piece of code which dpkg controls. "triggers" looks like it could be the mechanism by which a package flags that it has generated files, and by which dpkg exerts control. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
