Re: stopping reiser4progs package installation (was Bug#264582: package breaks everything else)

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 12-Aug-04, 05:06 (CDT), Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org> wrote: 
> in order to not let the user unwarned of the "live" fsck she will face
> and, most important, make her aware of the required change of kernel,
> i decided to present the classical question via debconf to stop the
> install (making preinst returning 1) at the last minute.
> 
> i recall to have seen something like this before but my users seem to
> not like it at all.
> 
> any suggestion?

Ship both the old and the new version of fsck.reiser4 (or whatever it's
called). Use update-alternatives in the postinst to set which one is
actually used depending on the answer to the debconf question.

OR

Ship a wrapper script that checks to make sure the kernel version is
suitable before running the new fsck.reiser4.real.

Steve


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