Re: pgapack-1.0-1
On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: pgapack-1.0-1"):
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Karl R. Sackett writes ("pgapack-1.0-1"):
> > > > Note: If you are upgrading from PGAPack-0.2 you need to edit
> > > > /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/status to correct a problem
> > > > with the control file in the old version. Find the strings 'PGAPack'
> > > > and change them to 'pgapack' before you do the upgrade. Crude, but it
> > > > worked for me...
> > >
> > > Why is this necessary ?
> >
> > I gave him a preinstall script to fix this. He said he would incorporate
> > it in the next release.
>
> I hope I've misunderstood this. It sounds like you've written a
> preinst script that modifies /var/lib/dpkg/status !!!!!
>
> This will not work. You should absolutely definitely never ever touch
> dpkg's internals in maintainer scripts; that's a recipe for nothing
> happening at best and disaster at worst.
Ooops! Well, I was just trying to automate what he had suggested the user
do before installation.
>
> If the script does something else then please tell me what it is :-).
>
> I also want to know why he thinks the strings need to be changed.
> Perhaps there is a bug or misfeature in dpkg that he's trying to work
> around.
Probably ;-)
Later,
Dwarf
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