Re: pre and post install targets

2008-07-28 Thread Jose-Marcio
Hello Ralf, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Jose-Marcio wrote on Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:46:29PM CEST: Well, one reason I'm hesitant is that I think most such pre- or post- actions are pretty system-dependent, more so than other tasks routinely done in makefiles. For example, they would

Re: pre and post install targets

2008-07-21 Thread Jose-Marcio
The sequence of operations are : stop the MTA, stop the filter, make upgrade, restarts the filter and restarts the MTA. It's pratical and less error prone to have a single command to launch instead of typing all them. Either way, all this can be done with a small shell script. Regards, Jose-Marcio

pre and post install targets

2008-07-17 Thread Jose-Marcio
dump databases, make install, recreate databases (if database format changed), and relaunch the daemon. Currently, I've defined a new target (upgrade) which depends on : upgrade : preinstall install postinstall Is there a more elegant way to do this ? Thanks Jose-Marcio