On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > Don't you mean running the config script before preinst? > > That would be nice, and indeed ideal, but doing that right would > probably mean adding an additional package state to dpkg. As I discuss > here: > > > > An old patch to do this is > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2001/debian-dpkg-200102/msg00003.html > > > Also has useful discussion of why it may be better to run the > > > config script after the preinst, not before it. > > Running the config script after the preinst makes some intuitive things > like dpkg --configure on a half-configured or broken package work more as > expected.
Well, the way Wichert as explained to me how he plans on implementing hooks, there will have to be a new dpkg state. Of course, Wichert has been inactive lately on this list, and in cvs, so we'll have to defer to him as to what his intentions are.
