Github user iyerr3 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/306#discussion_r207707634
--- Diff: deploy/DEB/postinst ---
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# coding=utf-8
+#
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+#
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+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
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+
+# Source debconf library.
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
+MADLIB_VERSION="1.15-dev"
+MADLIB_INSTALL_PATH="InstallPathNotFound"
+
+# Fetching configuration from debconf
+db_get madlib/installpath
+MADLIB_INSTALL_PATH=$RET
+
+# Remove existing soft links
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It would be nice to move the post-install/post-remove bash commands to its
own function and make it common between deb and rpm.
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