Re: postinst howto q's

1998-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Igor has already pointed out the the md5sum and non-confile postinst-handled file solutions. As to the ugly hack of trying to call dpkg -l in the middle of a dpkg run, that may not be feasible since dpkg tries very hard to serialize access to its state files. The b

Re: postinst howto q's

1998-05-18 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 18 May 1998 14:02:32 EDT, "Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote: > > I'm preparing a new release of my pppupd package and I want to correct > some things which though not harmful are annoying. > > pppupd ships with a conffile which needs to be customized for each > indivi

postinst howto q's

1998-05-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I'm preparing a new release of my pppupd package and I want to correct some things which though not harmful are annoying. pppupd ships with a conffile which needs to be customized for each individual installation so I ask some questions in the postinst. However if a person is upgrading from a pr