On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:12:24AM -0500, Chris Danis wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:11:47 +0100 Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote > : > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > [...] > > > So I wondered if I could somehow find out if the user is upgrading > > > from a version before this upstream version, and issue a message > > > referring to a document somewhere in /usr/share/doc during postinst. > > > > I have faced the same problem with a package for the last days. If you find > > out, please let me know :-) > > From /usr/share/doc/packaging-manual/packaging.html/ > ch-maintainerscripts.html: > > 6.2 Summary of ways maintainer scripts are called > ... > * postinst configure most-recently-configured-version > > So if the old upstream version was configured properly, postinst will get > its version number. > > But - do NOT do this just by echoing stuff out from postinst; this breaks > for non-interactive installs. Read up on debconf and have it display a > note for the user (as the non-interactive frontend will mail root with > this note). It also might be a good idea to read up on debconf anyway so > you can use it to configure the package :)
Yes this is the correct way to do this, but please don't do it for every single stupid inane thing (tm) if people don't read README.Debian that's their fault. -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian/GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org LPSG "member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
