On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:44:22AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > test -d /usr/share/doc/openldapd || exit 0 # openldapd not installed
> Debian packages aren't allowed to depend on the existence of stuff in
> doc as they can be removed by the administrator.
Above message in debian-devel got me thinking....
A package I got involved has a runtime script like this. It trys to
identify whether lpd(BSD) or LPRng is running. Initially I wrote it by
checking files in /etc/init.d/ but the real current maintainer opted to
check /usr/share/doc/ . This made sense to me until I read above
comment from one of the debian GURU.
If I have to be sure, I check exit code of following:
dpkg -s lprng| grep -e "^Status: install ok installed"
dpkg -s lpr| grep -e "^Status: install ok installed"
It will be very slow, though. Any good way?
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