Re: upgrading openldapd --> slapd

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Roland Bauerschmidt 

| Herbert Xu wrote:
| > That's the problem with our current init.d package status test.
| > Unfortunately, the existence of files is never going to be sufficient
| > in deducing the status of a package as it may have been completed replaced
| > by another package.  I guess what we really need is a way of querying the
| > package database from an init.d script, or have dpkg rename configuration
| > files of removed packages.
| 
| test -d /usr/share/doc/openldapd || exit 0 # openldapd not installed
| 
| I admit that this is probably not a very elegant way, but it should do
| the job of checking if a particular package is installed...

For instance, it will break once dpkg is able to not install
particular directory hierarchies.  test -f
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openldapd.list is about as bad, though..

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Tollef Fog Heen
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