Re: /etc/shells management

[Isaac To <kkto@csis.hku.hk>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de> writes:

    Martin> What's the preferred way to do this check? Consider, some shell
    Martin> is installed with its appropriate entry in /etc/shells. Now, we
    Martin> remove it: the entry will be deleted from /etc/shells, which
    Martin> makes sense, because the binary isn't there any longer. The
    Martin> package is still in configured state. Now we install it again,
    Martin> and the entry in /etc/shells should be added again, since it was
    Martin> there when we begun. How does the postinst know that this is no
    Martin> upgrade? Why doesn't add-shell care for this, so the postinst
    Martin> can unconditionally run?

Perhaps something like "update-modules" would help here?

Regards,
Isaac.