Re: update-alternatives in maintainer's scripts

[Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:

> I'd like to close bugs #38584, #181130. I just want to know how to call
> update-alternatives in maintainer's scripts. Should be only with 'configure'
> state for postinst and 'remove' for postrm? What is official policy for
> alternatives?

Ok, so what is correct?

In postinst:

 if [ "$1" == "configure" ]; then
	update-alternatives --install ...
 fi

or just:

 update-alternatives --install ...


In prerm:

 if [ "$1" == "remove" ]; then
	update-alternatives --remove ...
 fi

or just:

 update-alternatives --remove ...


What is the best common practices?

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