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Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?



On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:01:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Any ideas how one could implement shared variables in maintainer
> scripts? There are things like the account name that need to be
> present in postinst and postrm, and I am notorious for changing one
> while leaving the other. Is there any recommended hack to do variable
> substitution in maintainer scripts at build time?

The autoconf/debhelper way?

for file in postrm prerm postinst preinst
do
  sed -ie "s/USERNAME_TO_BE_FILLED_HERE/$username/g" debian/$file
done

-- 
Wouter Verhelst
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