At 19:26 +0300 1999-07-12, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 05:25:38PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote:Can I find somewhere skeletons for postinst, preinst, postrm and prerm scripts so avoiding the whole rewriting that leads to many bugs ?There are no skeletons, because those scripts are used for many purposes. Many packages don't need them at all and many packages have differing requirements on what a postinst should do. So, really, all you can do is to bake your own and go shopping for reusable parts from others' scripts.
Actually there is a possibility of skeleton scripts, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote some a while back and posted to debian-mentors.
Message is here: <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9804/msg00029.htm l>.
I put a broken up version of this at: <http://web.espy.org/debian/skeletal-maintainer-scripts/>.
Another message which talks about potential issues with those scripts: <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-mentors-9805/msg00042.htm l>.
Incidentally, this sort of question is generally better asked on debian-mentors.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>