Hi Phil,
Am 12.11.2009 um 19:06 schrieb Philip Brown:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Dagobert Michelsen
<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 10.11.2009 um 22:00 schrieb Philip Brown:
If the package does not function when [pkgadd'd directly], then the
package is improperly put together.
Yes. And if the package has already been released like the old
esound?
Than what? Without hooks your doomed.
doomed, is a strong word :)
If one chooses to not use automated package management tools, then by
definition, one will be stuck doing more things manually.
However that does point out, that if a maintainer is tempted to try to
do "clever" things in a hook for mistake cleanup purposes, said
maintainer should instead implement this "cleverness" in normal
preinstall type scripts, so that it will work with straight pkgadd.
So.. if this applies to you, Mr. Michelsen, please RE-fix your esound
package ;-)
If a package erranously removes a modified config-file on removal
I obviously cannot fix that in the new package and the old package
is already out. But I could put a copy aside in a postremove-hook
and copy it back-in before the new package is installed :)
Best regards
-- Dago
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