Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:25:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > To do so I need the initscript to make a difference if the package is >> > called from postinst (don't exist with error status code) or not (exit >> > with error status code to allow an admin to script something e.g.). >> >> Why this? Why not just >> >> invoke-rc.d $INITSCRIPT start || true > > Because I do not want to install, configure, etc. the initscript > manually in postinst. I simply use dh_installinit as helper which will > also work if the init-procedure changes somehow or something like this.
I understand you that you prefer it this way. But unless dh_installinit has a "--true-if-fail" option, you should do it manually in this case. Fiddling with this variable stuff in POSTINST isn't really easier than writing manual invoke-rc.d calls into your postinst. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
