On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:23:15 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:32:58PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> case "$1" in configure) >> # Configure this package. If the package must prompt the user for >> # information, do it here. There are three sub-cases: >> if test "${2+set}" != set; then > Man, that's ugly. I use: > if [ -n "$var" ]; then fi *Shrug*. > for this sort of thing. However, that does depend on a certain > other case you handle never happening: >> elif test -z "$2" -o "$2" = "<unknown>"; then > file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-maintainerscripts.html > is my Bible when I'm writing/editing maintainer scripts. It's > documented nowhere that I need to handle the argument '<unknown>'. I think you actually need to go read that document. ─────────────────────────────────── 6.6 Details of configuration When we configure a package (this happens with dpkg --install and dpkg --configure), we first update any conffiles and then call: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version No attempt is made to unwind after errors during configuration. If there is no most recently configured version dpkg will pass a null argument; older versions of dpkg may pass <unknown> (including the angle brackets) in this case. Even older ones do not pass a second argument at all, under any circumstances. ─────────────────────────────────── See the bit about older versions of dpkg? > Where did you come by this, and if it's something we should worry > about, This is an excerpt from one of my postinst files, so it is loosely derived from the scripts written by Charles Briscoe-Smith, March-June 1998. > why isn't it documented in Policy? It is. Why don't you try reading it more carefully? > To me it looks like whoever wrote this code extrapolated too > generously from the output of "dpkg -l" on the name of a package > that has been purged. But I haven't gone grubbing around in dpkg's > source code, so I don't know for sure... No, whoever wrote this code (yours truly) actually read policy, and is trying to hand craft packages that follow it. manoj -- A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. Blake Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C