On 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think I have solved a majority of the problems with ordering, my biggest > > fear is that the limited interface to dpkg is going to make a mess of > > everything (imagine, tell it to do something, it fails, you have no idea > > what failed..) > > One would think you could query the status of all of the packages you asked > it to operate on. You can get back what packages installed, what packages are > in an inconsistent state, etc. This will not tell you that the postinst > failed.
The trouble is the information arrives a bit to late to do anything about, I am not even sure what to do in case of a failure, bail or continue? What is the word on install scripts, should they fail in normal circumstances or only in exceptional ones? Jason
