Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature

2007-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 04:08, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We currently envisage three kinds of triggers: >  * Explicit triggers.  These can be activated by any program >    by running dpkg-trigger (at any time, but ideally from a maintainer >    script). >  * File triggers.  Thes

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature

2007-01-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ian Jackson: > To restore a package in state `triggered' to `installed', dpkg will > run the postinst script: >postinst triggered " ..." Is this completely POSIX-conforming if there are many triggers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature

2007-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
For some time the idea of having some kind of event queue notification mechanism in dpkg has been floating about. For example, it would be used to avoid running scrollkeeper-update dozens of times during an upgrade and could simplify the emacs addon registration. Wichert and I even had a good des