Re: upgrading openldapd --> slapd

[Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> That's the problem with our current init.d package status test.
> Unfortunately, the existence of files is never going to be sufficient
> in deducing the status of a package as it may have been completed replaced
> by another package.  I guess what we really need is a way of querying the
> package database from an init.d script, or have dpkg rename configuration
> files of removed packages.

test -d /usr/share/doc/openldapd || exit 0 # openldapd not installed

I admit that this is probably not a very elegant way, but it should do
the job of checking if a particular package is installed...

Roland

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Roland Bauerschmidt