On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:32:40AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > In my new version of the fvwm package (2.2-x), there have been radical > changes. The postinst will do its best not to irrevocably retrieve > the information it expects to currently be present, but it warns the > installer that certain information may be lost, thus giving them a > chance to rescue it first. I do not think that this is an > unreasonable query, but better ways of handling it are always welcome.
I'd qualify this as an important info, and if doing something else would cause harm (and release-critical bug reports ;), then do leave the pause. However, it'd be nice if you would just leave the old stuff in place and add new stuff. Or move all old stuff to a backup location, replace with the new stuff, check integrity, and (depending on the result) then revert or delete backup. > A more questionable example: "Should I make this the default window > manager?" We could always do so be default, but since the sysadmin > may have already chosed the default window manager, they may not like > this behaviour. This is a tricky one. One could assume that if you selected a window manager, you want to use it, but whether it is default... I don't know. I can't wait for debian-admintool to resolve this, by asking the question somewhere in the installation procedure. > And of course, dpkg asks questions when trying to upgrade modified > conffiles. I think this is a good thing. It is one of the purposes of marking files as conffiles, so that they don't get overwritten automatically during upgrades. It may seem ugly/annoying, but is very useful. > So we're left with purposeless questions: "Do you realise that this > package has been upgraded? You must see the README! Press enter to > continue...." Of course the package is being upgraded! :) That is why we all have to cooperate more with the FAQ and Release Notes maintainers, so that all these 'upgraded-package-prepare-for-doom' announcements get in the place where people are supposed to read them. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
