On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > No, the GET command retreives the answer to a question so the postinst > can act on it. Look at the turorial again, you will see the config > script uses an INPUT command to ask that same question. Now this is confusing like accounting, everything is inversed. I use INPUT to OUPUT a note, ok. And I use GET to set a variable to the return value. Once I stop trying to interprete the meaning of the commands, it actually makes sense, like accounting... > No, your config script should test for this situation if possible, and > you should display the message there with the INPUT command. And I act on the situation in the postinst script, without any further display, since this happened already in the config? Seems to work now. > > # Old scorefile > > db_get moon-buggy-esd/old_score_file || true > > db_go > > I don't see the point of retreiving the value of the question > moon-buggy-esd/old_score_file if you do nothing with it. > You probably meant to use db_input. Yup. Now just one more newbie question, what does the " || true" do? It is not setting the default answer (which is probably set in the templates files), its OR-ing the return value of db_* with true? Do I need to use this? I do not see the sense in this.
> > if [ "$1" = configure ] > > then > > # (Re)move old scorefile and directory if it exists > > if [ -e /var/lib/games/moon-buggy/mbscore ] > > then > > db_get moon-buggy-esd/old_score_file > > mv files around... > > Why are you calling the GET command again, and again ignoring whatever > it returns? Um, right, I wanted to OUTPUT (that is INPUT) something. I do not need db_get at all, since it was just displaying a note, I probably do not get a meaningful return value? > Debconf allows multiple packages to contain templates and questions with > the same name. It keeps track of what packages include them, and will > only remove the templates and questions when all of those packages are > purged. This is all done automatically (except for requiring you call > the PURGE command in yout postrm on purge, which debhelper does for > you). Should I used shared/moon-buggy for this? Or is moon-buggy sufficient? Thanks, Christian
