Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:34:49 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>
wrote:
>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
The debhelper way, yes. But, IMO, in debhelper proper. See #239659. I
hope Joey will agree this time.
Greetings
Marc, not very lucky with debhelper wishlist bugs
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