On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:08:13PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How do I get update-alternatives to keep information when upgrading a
> package?
>
> Currently I have postinst add it and prerm remove it, but if I set the
> alternative to point to something else than the default, this means
> that that information gets lost everytime I upgrade the package...
It doesn't. update-alternatives notices if you have changed the link
from the default, and then goes into "manual" mode. Once in manual
mode, you need to do "update-alternatives --auto" to revert to auto
mode. Until that happens, the sysadmin's choices of alternatives are
not affected by any installation or removal of alternatives by
maintainer scripts.
Julian
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