dpkg path-exclude (was: Limiting the size of installed changelogs)
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:31:42 +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 23:59, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Marc Haber wrote:
>> > Has anybody gotten dpkg path-exclude to work?
>>
>> Yes. It's been a long time that I have not used it but the main problem
>> is that to be effective the option must be used right from the start (i.e.
>> already at the debootstrap stage) otherwise you have to manually cleanup
>> the excluded files (at the time when you put the option in dpkg's
>> configuration file).
>>
>> (I don't remember if reinstalling all the packaes achieves the desired
>> result too)
>>
>
>It does.
Can you share some command lines and/or scripts and/or configuration
files please?
Greetings
Marc
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