On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:43:32PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > dpkg-log "Recalibrating the frobnitzer" > > This means future debs can't be installed with the current dpkg. It > > means future dpkg's can never output anything. It means all debs that do > > anything important in their postinst need an --assert-somethingorother > > in their preinst. Seems like needless complexity to me. > We don't need a --assert.
You need an assert, a dozen lines of boilerplate code, or versioned
dependencies on an essential package for every package with a
"significant" postinst, and versioned predependencies for every package
with a "significant" preinst, for as long as we want to support upgrades
from anything pre-woody (and by "support" that just means "don't have
things break in a confusing manner").
> if [ ! -x /usr/bin/dpkg-log ]; then
> eval 'dpkg-log () {
> while expr "$1" : "-"; do
> shift
> done
> echo $*;
> }'
> fi
Note that this code doesn't cope with the --pipe option that Jason was
blithely assuming.
And all this for _what_?
Cheers,
aj
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