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. In the specific case of debconf, I'll bet that the critical piece of missing information is debconf-devel.7 from package debconf-doc.
> Sorry for the rant, it's just a little frustrating. File a bug against developers-reference (or whatever you feel the relevent document is), and I'll bet that it'll get fixed. -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
