Re: dpkg hooks (was Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm")

[Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 08:39:33PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> > I assume that by after-package-configured hooks you mean that that
> > package does not need to be configured in this particular dpkg run? 
> > For instance, for something that has specifically enableable support
> > for a certain package but does not depend on it?
> 
> I'm not sure I parsed that correctly, but I think the answer's "yes".
> 
> Basically, bbdb would install an after-package-configured hook for vm
> so that whenever vm is configured (even if bbdb's not currently being
> installed/upgraded) some bit of code would get executed.
> 
> Is that what you meant?

Yes.

On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 11:12:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Nope, It means run this hook after all packages have been
>  configured in this run, please, dpkg. This is a very lispish thing.

I thought that you described two separate sets of hooks, an
after-all-packages-configured and an after-specific-package-configured. 
If I misunderstood you, I'm suggesting it :)

Dan


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