martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.10.11.1928 +0200]: >> is there an established way to find out in the postinst script of a >> package whether an other package (e.g. one which we Recommend or >> Suggest) is configured? Testing for file contents can only tell whether >> it is unpacked, but that might not be enough. > > Assuming it provides a conffile, can you check for $FILE.dpkg-new ?
But this file will stay there if the user chooses to keep their changed version. So I would have to check for $FILE, too. But then I can't discriminate between "was removed but not purged, now it is unpacked but unconfigured" and "is configured but the user chose to keep the old changed conffile", can I? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer