Re: dpkg-reconfigure and postinst

[Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:35:44AM -0500, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>         Hi!

hi,

>  I am having a problem, and I guess I might not be the only one who
> might stumble into it.  When one wants to do something in new installs
> of the package, they usually check for $2 != "" in the postinst and put
> the stuff in there.  So far, so good, and policy friendly because you
> might not create ill side effects about user expectations to no changes
> during upgrades.

this is what i do in the postinst of libapache-mod-ssl package:

# we do not want to bother the user with useless questions at install time                                        
if [ "$1" = "reconfigure" ] || [ "${DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE}" = "1" ]; then
	mod-ssl-makecert                                                                                          
fi                                                                                                                

this is documented in debconf-devel manpage.

cheers
domenico

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