On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > Seems like the thing to do is agree to and adjust policy such that preinst > does not interrupt the process (ie, no prompts) and modify dpkg to support > --unpack-only or similar.. Then apt just needs to sort out predepends. > Predepends are the only time when you'd need to finish postinst BEFORE you > could unpack other programs.. > > In the case of predepends, I have no idea what to do. But if all the > postinst that could be was saved till after everything else was done, you > just come back to the machine and answer remaining questions...
APT already all of does this. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
