Re: /etc/shells management
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 20:56:00 +0200, Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de> said:
> My question is: How does the postinst know whether it is an "initial
> install"? How does it know, whether the entry is missing because the
> sysadmin took it out, or because it was removed when the package was
> removed but not purged? In the latter case it should be added again,
> but not in the first one.
case "$1" in
configure)
# Configure this package. If the package must prompt the user for
# information, do it here.
# There are three sub-cases:
if test "${2+set}" != set; then
# We're being installed by an ancient dpkg which doesn't remember
# which version was most recently configured, or even whether
# there is a most recently configured version.
:
elif test -z "$2" -o "$2" = "<unknown>"; then
# The package has not ever been configured on this system, or was
# purged since it was last configured.
:
else
# Version $2 is the most recently configured version of this
# package.
:
fi ;;
manoj
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