software installation - How does Ubuntu determine a package to be installed? - Ask Ubuntu
other extracting files specific package in proper directories , running whatever scripts defined in it, apt
/dpkg
maintain separate record of has been installed successfully?
i'm considering merging root directories of separate containers, i'm wondering what's going happen.
yes. dpkg
records entries of packages installed in system. file maintains /var/lib/dpkg/status
.
from man dpkg
/var/lib/dpkg/status statuses of available packages. file contains information whether package marked removing or not, whether installed or not, etc. see section information packages more info. status file backed daily in /var/backups. can useful if it's lost or corrupted due filesystems troubles.
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