Re: dpkg postinst.d patch: progress ping
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:28:02AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 09:40 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> > i was wondering what the present status is, so that i can add it
> > to my progress report.
> >
> The status is unchanged from when you last asked.
>
> > mr russell coker's postinst.d patch is apparently well-known
> > and the bugreport has been merged with other bugs, one of which
> > (#17243) dates back to 1998! kuudosss. however, the maintainer
> > says that those bugs are part of a larger picture of required
> > / requested functionality and they don't want to proceed with
> > what would turn out to be a temporary measure.
> >
> Correct.
>
> > 30may2004: after evaluating options (see links above) initiated
> > thread to convince dpkg developers to incorporate postinst.d
> > patch.
> >
> Not Going To Happen.
>
> As I've already said, and has been outlined in countless threads about
> this in the past, "/etc/dpkg/postinst.d" is not a complete solution to
> the whole triggers problem and on that basis has been rejected.
i must apologise for not having been involved in the discussions
that you refer to.
> There's been some useful discussion in the past about good ways to
> schedule commands to be run after dpkg has completed its run, but it's
> way off the radar at the moment. Feature requests like this are post-
> sarge at least!
scott, hi,
some references to such discussions would be much appreciated.
so that a specification can be drawn up, agreed on, and then they
can be implemented.
l.
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