Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would appreciate it if I could avoid to call ANY scripts.
preinst scripts are there for a good reason (I hope). [Investigating some ...] Most of these, though, seem concerned with upgrading from older versions of the same (or a predecessor) package. Short of running the scripts in a modified shell, that bailed out, if you call any external command (so that 'if [ "$1" -eq "upgrade"]; then do_something; fi' will be correctly ignored), I see no technical solution. Of course, policy could dictate a "cross-preinst" script, that would work correctly from another platform (chrooted). Many things do work fine this way (most filesystem frobbing). A package that provides a "preinst" script is not cross-installable. In summary, though, I'm not convinced that all this is necessary. Hurd should be able to install itself. Working on that is probably more rewarding. -- Robbe
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