On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > was just installed.
So you should leave the K scripts about, rather than completely removing
all the links. Or changing the word `start' in /etc/init.d/xdm to `begin',
or so.
> A postinst script cannot distinguish between an
> initial install and an upgrade, therefore you can't add some kind of
> conditional around the update-rc.d call in the postinst.
if [ "$1" = "configure" -a -z "$2" ]; then
: initial install
fi
Cheers,
aj
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