On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:51:50PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > 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.
Indeed. Note that cross-install does avoid calling any scripts ever since. > I see no technical solution. Well, an option for dpkg to not call these scripts is a technical solution. It's a hacker option, for people who know what they do. It is not failproof, but it generally works for new installs, where only a limited set of known packages is installed. > 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. Oh well, it is convenient from time to time. And would have helped me if it had been implemented two and a healf years ago :-/ Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
