Your message dated Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:48:48 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#39893: dpkg: please add option to ignore pre{inst,rm} script has caused the Debian Bug report #39893, regarding dpkg: please add option to ignore pre{inst,rm} script to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.3 Severity: wishlist Hello, when dpkg is used to install packages on another system ("--root"), there should be a way to ignore the packaging scripts. --unpack helps, as it doesn't run the post* scripts, but pre* scripts are always run. I would like to have an option not to run the pre* scripts at all (--force-ignore-preinst and --force-ignore-prerm for example). That would make things a lot easier under some special circumstances. Thanks, Marcus -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux ulysses 2.1.106 #1 SMP Sat Jun 20 23:27:39 CEST 1998 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone hi libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2 The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)
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--- Begin Message ---tag 39893 wontfix thanks On Mon, 1999-06-21 at 19:09:30 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.4.1.3 > Severity: wishlist > when dpkg is used to install packages on another system ("--root"), there > should be a way to ignore the packaging scripts. --unpack helps, as it > doesn't run the post* scripts, but pre* scripts are always run. I would like > to have an option not to run the pre* scripts at all > (--force-ignore-preinst and --force-ignore-prerm for example). > > That would make things a lot easier under some special circumstances. As also covered in the merged bug, I don't think this would be a good idea. We have instead gone with an alternative that should cover handling the use case that triggered these reports: <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap> I'm thus closing this report. Thanks. Guillem
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