Re: quitting from install scripts
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:01:15PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >
> > > I asked a variation on the same question on -devel a few weeks ago, and got
> > > zero responses. Aborting in the preinst is the only way to do anything
> > > even close, but it makes a bit of a mess.
> > If you want to quit a script, use exit. exit 0 means everything ok, any other
> > value means error. normally the exit value of the script is the value of the
> > last command which was run, but to be sure to exit cleany you can add exit 0
> > at the end of the script. Nothing more should you do to 'Error unwind'
> > something, the rest is done by dpkg.
>
> Yes. The question was not one of shell programming syntax, it was one of
> Debian packaging. If a preinst script exits with nonzero status, other
> packages can be left unpacked and unconfigured, and other such unpleasantness.
>
That's right. If preinst exits with nonzero, then dpkg unwinds by running
postrm abort-upgrade or abort-install. I guess you'd have to handle those
cases carefully to wind back the upgrade properly. Sounds messy to me.
I asked at debian-devel this week and got a response which convinced me not
too provide a "quit" option in the install scripts. At least in my case, I
don't really need it.
Drew
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