Hi Alan! You wrote:
> For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in > Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird > (preliminary packages are avalible from > http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and mozilla-snapshot. The > problem is that in order to do this I need to do different things for > each of the browsers in postinst and postrm. Basicaly what I'd like to > know is if theres a nicer way to test if a package is installed than > just testing the existance of files that the package would create if it > was installed? Uhm, I don't think you should do these kinds of tricks anyway. For example, your package wouldn't work correctly if I first install mozilla, then mosgest, and last firebird, because your package's postinst would only do stuff for mozilla. -- Kind regards, +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
