Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> schrieb:

> 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

Or the eperl way. Have a look at Davide Salvetti's auctex package.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie