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Subject: Does an apk feature exist similar to  deb's dpkg-divert or
 pacman.conf's NoExtract?
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:57:27 +0200
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Hi,

does Alpine provide a feature similar to either (Debian/Ubuntu...) deb's

   dpkg-divert

or (Arch) pacman.conf's

   NoExtract

? In other words, can you install packages and exclude certain files in
the packages from the installation, like with pacman.conf's NoExtract,
or can certain files at least be installed in a different path and/or
with a different name, like dpkg-divert allows?

The .desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications/ or
$HOME/.local/share/applications/ in some cases don't override .desktop
files in /usr/share/applications/. This is one of the reasons to
_permanently_ get rid of some files owned by packages, even when
upgrading/reinstalling a package.

Maybe a workaround by making an edited .desktop file immutable by
running chattr might cause issues, if apk tries to remove or overwrite
it, but even if it shouldn't cause issues, I'm in favour of doing it not
like that.

IIUC it is possible to protect paths by /etc/apk/protected_paths.d/, but
not certain files.

Regards,
Ralf