On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > > [snip] > > - debconf doesn't append '|| true' to the init.d stop in prerm. this > > means that when start-stop-daemon returns 1 the removal/upgrade fails > > miserably if the daemon isn't running or can't be stopped. imho this is > > broken (although it may be better than removing a package under a daemon > > that refuses to stop?). how do i get around this? ignore it? > > in shell scripts (for debconf) you should always append a || true to the commands executed when it is not really needed to fail. Actually you should make your script fail prove (by testing and testing and did I mention testing?).
[snip] > > > > - debconf was surprisingly easy... however creating the config files once > > the information has been obtained wasn't. i would have liked to have > > filled in a template but ended up doing 'echo "key value" >> /etc/myfile'. > > is there a 'standard' way of doing this? perhaps i should be using perl > > and text::template? > > doing a echo "key value" >> /etc/myfile is a rather evil approach (for reasons search the mailing list and/or debconf docu) better would be something like: cat /etc/myfile | sed -e 's/key.*/key value/' >> /etc/myfile2 mv /etc/myfile2 /etc/myfile ( you could do that over /tmp too, to avoid cluttering /etc with files, but I leave that over for your imagination ... ) -- kind regards, Michael Moerz (aka. natoka)
