Re: DebConf-ing Apache Modules

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> > The preinst's of all packages added their name to the choices of the
> > shared select variable, and the postinst's removed this packages's name.
> > 
> > Each postinst would look if it's the last package in the choices list.
> > If it was, that would mean that it's the last Zope/Apache module package
> > that's installed in that apt run. Then, this package should care to
> > restart the Zope/Apache server.
> 
> Wow, pretty slick. It does feel like a mild abuse of debconf -- writing
> to a temp file would work just as well.

How can we do this in a secure manner ? If we create the temp file
with mktemp, we have to communicate this name. Otherwise where
should we place this temp file. 

Ciao
        Racke

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