Re: [Help] Re: Bug#484167: cdd-common: missing directory when installing

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:42:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jeffrey Austen wrote:
> Ahh, I think here is the problem.  I just purged my cdd-common and
> can now reproduce this.  I'm afraid that the new trigger feature of
> dpkg is causing this problem.  If I understood things right the
> trigger feature should cause to build menus *after* packages are
> installed, but obviosely it causes the contrary and starts calling
> the menu building stuff in the middle of installation process which
> somehow leads to undefined results if not all files are installed
> correctly.
> 
> While it would be easily possible to verify that /etc/cdd/cdd.conf
> exists inside /usr/share/menu/cdd-menu I would have to do some
> reasonable action in this case which would be to throw an error
> because this should definitely not happen and thus I rather think
> that either the menu package is broken because of working at the
> wrong point in time or the dpkg trigger feature does not properly.

AFAICT from the documentation the dpkg triggers work as intended,
although maybe not as desired by you ;)

File triggers are activated on creation or modification of the
triggering file by dpkg, so during unpack or removal.

A possible solution might be to change your menu file script to ignore
the missing conffile and activate the trigger again manually in your
postinst with dpkg-trigger.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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