Re: /etc/shells management
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 22:56:22 -0400, kcr@debian.org wrote:
> [...] So, if a package contains something that the maintainer thinks
> ought to be a valid login shell, it's postinst should, (on initial
> install only, to allow a sysadmin to take it out again), run:
>
> /usr/sbin/add-shell /path/to/shell
What's the preferred way to do this check? Consider, some shell is
installed with its appropriate entry in /etc/shells. Now, we remove it:
the entry will be deleted from /etc/shells, which makes sense, because
the binary isn't there any longer. The package is still in configured
state. Now we install it again, and the entry in /etc/shells should be
added again, since it was there when we begun. How does the postinst
know that this is no upgrade? Why doesn't add-shell care for this, so
the postinst can unconditionally run?
Kind regards,
Martin
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