Re: Asking Questions upon package removal
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:53:27PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
> I'm packaging up a backup application that creates a whole lot
> of data file somewhere in /usr/share. Now if you delete these files then
> your backup tapes become really painful to restore.
It shouldn't do this. No application data should be written to /usr. Such
things belong in /var (see FHS).
> So if someone does a --purge I want to query the user to check
> they really want to do this. Can I use debconf to do this in the preinst
> scripts? Or is there a better way todo this sort of thing or should I
> just assume the user isn't stupid?
You should be able to do this by using debconf calls in the postrm. I don't
know whether or not you can (or should) ask questions there, but you can
retrieve answers to questions you have already asked. See the bsd-ftpd package
for an example.
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- mdz
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