On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:31:42PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Is there a central repository of what files have been created by > packages on the Debian managed part of the filesystem? I just ran into > the same problem a couple weeks ago over /usr/bin/blackhole, used by the > blackhole-<mta> packages, but also still around in the old xjokes > package (now moved to /usr/games after a bug report I filed.)
Everything actually included in the filesystem archive of a .deb is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list. Files created by packages' maintainer scripts aren't registered (although support for that is apparently planned for a future version of dpkg). > Which also surprises me - I thought I should have had an "attempt to > overwrite file belonging to another package" with sawfish-pager - I > didn't see anything. Does dpkg wave off that message when it is looking > at symlinks? No, but it only generates the message if the file it's attempting to overwrite was actually part of another package (so in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list). /usr/bin/pager is just created by update-alternatives, so isn't recorded. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
