Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread Niels Thykier
George Shuklin: > On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: >> >>> There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely >>> declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? >> Probably dpkg doesn't support

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread George Shuklin
On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for those

Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: > There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely > declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for those things. Some of them have

Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

2018-03-05 Thread George Shuklin
Hello. There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? I've checked few well-established packages (openssh, nginx, systemd, dbus, cups, etc) - each of them have slightly different code for such