Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> writes: > Also, there is the funny case of config scripts; these are run > even before preinst, and before any pre-dependencies are installed. And > yet, these scripts are often used to prompt using debconf; they must be > no-ops if debconf is not yet installed (they get re-run later, I > think).
Yeah, they're run via debconf's integration with the rest of the packaging system as I understand it, and are automatically run at postinst time before the postinst if they weren't run previously. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
