Re: quitting from install scripts

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:44:50AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > What is the usual approach to handling the aborting of a package
> > > installation?  Is it appropriate to "exit 1" in preinst if the user chooses
> > > "Quit", halting the installation of the package?
> 
> (I saw that you have decided not to do that, but anyway:)
> 
> Read the packaging-manual section about the way the maintainer scripts
> are called and how dpkg responds to their failure.
> 

Ah yes, 6.3.3.3 says postrm abort-upgrade/abort-install would be called if
preinst found an error.

Anyway, best and simpler to just not allow any "quit" option.

Thanks,

Drew

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