On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > <snip> > > A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, > > though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), > > maintscripts (debian women? I don't fully grok these yet!), and > > upgrade handling with eg. split packages and Replaces. > > I've looked through most of these resources. However some of the > packaging structure still seems to be missing. I know I mentioned this > before but apparently if you have a config file in your debian directory > this script is called prior to the preinst script and is supposed to be > used for your debconf questions. What is interesting is that I haven't > seen this any of this documented anywhere, I only happened upon it > because a debian developer pointed it out. > > Is there any kind of documentation that would point out features like > this out there. I'm not even terribly concerned with it all being in one > location, I can do the collection of it myself. I just find that it > makes it really hard to start building packages in an efficient manner > when after several months of hacking away someone comes by and says "You > know you should really be doing it this way" having no clue that that > way even exsited. > > Sorry for the rant, it's just a little frustrating.
Probably you think "man debconf-devel" is useful. Cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
