begin Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > ahh. it looks like fileutils owns /bin/ls! :) > > > > > > If I were worried about configuring the contents of > > > /bin/ls, I'd be set. :) > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/network/interfaces > > > dpkg: /etc/network/interfaces not found. > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf > > > dpkg: /etc/resolv.conf not found. > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/hosts > > > dpkg: /etc/hosts not found. > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/hostname > > > dpkg: /etc/hostname not found. > > > > > > # dpkg -S /etc/passwd > > > dpkg: /etc/passwd not found. > > > > that seems to indicate that these files aren't owned by any package. > > something like /etc/hostname is no more owned by a package than, say, > > /etc is. > > I assumed that they were put there by the "configure" stage of > some package, and that I need to run dpkg-reconfigure on the > right package.
as i understand it (and this much i'm fairly sure of) each package file has a list of directories it needs to install to. in the installation process of that package, if the directory doesn't exist, the directory is made. > Perhaps not -- maybe there is no built-in way > to reconfigure a Debian system. whoa there, fella. what exactly do you mean "reconfigure"? every time you change a hostname or a password, you're, in a sense, reconfiguring the system. in fact, there's "dpkg-reconfigure" as you pointed out, which reconfigures packages. do you really mean "no way to generate the base filesystem"? what exactly happened? what are you trying to do? short of rm -rf'ing /var/lib/dpkg (and not having a backup), i kind of doubt there's any problem debian can't handle. pete > > i'm not sure *how* they get on the system, but my guess is that > > it's simply part of the install process, as opposed to the > > "package installation" process which occurs after the base > > system is installed. > > Could be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
