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Re: [apt] Sets of packages that run the same command.



On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 12:18:29PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > (since pre commands don't make sense in this respect, we only need a
> > completion command)
> > 
> > Config-Command: ldconfig, update-menus
> 
> I think a much simpler solution would be to simply have a directory, say,
> /var/lib/dpkg/configure that dpkg will run the entire contents of after it
> is finished configuring things. This is nice because it is posisble to
> 'roll back' in the event of a failure, and the user can invoke the scripts
> by hand if they need.

So you suggest that the package place the commands there in its scripts
and the dpkg would perform some sort of sort -u on it at the end of the
install?

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