On 19 Jul 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The problem isn't in the postinst (I know neither of them use set
> > -e) but in the preinst script.
>
> Say what? update-alternatives is called in the *postinst*, and it's
> the *postinst* that is mentioned in
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> But I don't want it to fail, because there is no reason for it to do so,
> and this editor may very well be the only one on the system! Failure of
> the install for the trivial failure to register as "EDITOR" is
> unnecessary, and undesirable.
Dale, I think you are
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem isn't in the postinst (I know neither of them use set -e) but
> in the preinst script. If that script fails then ae is not installed.
>
> All editors now use update-alternatives to place themselves in the
> priority queue for "editor". If upda
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem isn't in the postinst (I know neither of them use set
> -e) but in the preinst script.
Say what? update-alternatives is called in the *postinst*, and it's
the *postinst* that is mentioned in the bug report as not checking for
errors. If upd
On 17 Jul 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > If update-alternatives fails, the install should *not* succeed.
> >
> > And why not? The update-alternatives failure does not impact the
> > further correct installation of the ae package, and after the
> > in
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I don't want it to fail, because there is no reason for it to do so,
> and this editor may very well be the only one on the system! Failure of
> the install for the trivial failure to register as "EDITOR" is
> unnecessary, and undesirable.
Are there si
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is however reason to tell dpkg that something went wrong with
> configuring ae. ... the postinst did not succeeded and should not
> pretend it did.
Perhaps something like this would be appropriate:
#! /bin/sh
set -e
exit_code=0
set +e
u
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If update-alternatives fails, the install should *not* succeed.
>
> And why not? The update-alternatives failure does not impact the
> further correct installation of the ae package, and after the
> install ae will function completely as expected when
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
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> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The function of these scripts i
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > >
> > > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR"
> > > using alternatives.
severity 23953 wishlist
quit
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> reopen 23953
> quit
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR"
> > using alternatives. If this fails the rest of the ae in
reopen 23953
quit
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR"
> using alternatives. If this fails the rest of the ae install is not
> effected, and ae will be fully functional.
Sure, so there is no prob
> Debian bug report logs - #23953
> ae: postinst does not check for errors
>
>Package: ae; Reported by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>dated Sat, 27 Jun 1998 03:33:04 GMT; Maintainer for ae is Dale Scheetz
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