On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:44:26PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op di, 11-01-2005 te 17:39 +0100, schreef Richard Atterer: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > So what would you advise me to do ? > > > > Why don't you ship a dummy "update-menus" command? In the unpacked package, > > the command could be a shell script which does nothing. The postinst could > > then replace that script with the correct binary. > > Because that would break other packages.
Not if the shell script in question queued the commands for later execution by update-menus proper. > What I'm really wondering about, though, is why you need to ship it that > way. I thought dpkg shipped packages in dependency order, if possible; > doesn't it? Many packages that use update-menus only Suggests: menu, and dpkg doesn't enforce order in that case. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
