On 29/12/14 09:08, Yuri Oleynikov (יורי אולייניקוב wrote: > Hello all > > So happened i'm maintainer of debian packages in my company. > And i have the following situation: > There're several deb packages that using debconf to ask user input during > installation, apply initial configuration, etc with: > * debian/package.config > * debian/package.preinst > * debian/package.postinst > > Seems quiet simple, until number of packages were grown and i noticed that > packageA.configs, pacakgeB...packageZ.config (the same for > debian/package.postinsts) script code is 90% same (or atleast VERY similar) > code, a lot of same mistakes and bugs because of copy-pastes. > > OK, i wrote some shell "library" that covers that 90% code base, created a > package (call it libxyz-common-tools with just > /usr/share/libxyz/config-tool, without config or pre-postinst - just > unpack), let make packageA-packageZ be depends or pre-depends on it. > > apt-get install libxyz-common-tools > apt-get install packageA > > Everything is OK. > > But, when installing packageA without libxyz-common-tools is preinstalled - > packageA.config script won' run? > > Is there any way to solve the problem?
I'm confused as to what you mean. If libxyz-common-tools is a dependency of packageA, then why would you be trying to install packageA without libxyz-common-tools installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54a08504.1060...@bitmessage.ch
