On 18 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi, > Igor has already pointed out the the md5sum and non-confile > postinst-handled file solutions. > > As to the ugly hack of trying to call dpkg -l in the middle of > a dpkg run, that may not be feasible since dpkg tries very hard to > serialize access to its state files. > Hmm I did not know that. > The best solution probably is to create a script in > /usr/sbin/pppupd-config, and tell the user to run that when ppp has > been configured. (Make sure that this line does not get lost, > scrolling up the screen, on a large upgrade run. > Loooking closely at the situation it seems there is only one piece of information in the default configuration that _has_ to be changed namely a hostname to ping. And there I can give a the safe albeit rather useless choice of localhost as a default. My only concern now is that as far as possible I should do something to stop pppupd from become active before ppp is active. So I'm asking the user to respond "yes, ppp is configured correctly" before continuing pppupds configuration. > In some cases it is better to let the humans make the tough > decisions. Until the development of dpkg-brainscan anyway :-) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
