On 16 Jun 2006, Frank Küster told this:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 14 Jun 2006, Steve Langasek outgrape:
>>
>>> Just like there's no guarantee that saying "no" to a conffile
>>> prompt when upgrading across stable releases will give you a
>>> usable package.
>>
>> I prefer in that case not to install the new version of the
>> package; since questions can be missed in a dist-upgrade. Some of
>> my packages default to not upgrading unless some questions are
>> answered affirmatively -- so the end result is still a working
>> package (as long as the dependencies still exist).
>
> How do you achieve this? The conffile questions are displayed after
> the new package is unpacked, so isn't a failing postinst all you can
> get? How do you get back to the old version?
I ask the questions in preinst.
manoj
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