Re: using perl in preinst script

[Rahul Amaram <amaramrahul@users.sourceforge.net>]

The package depends on python anyways. My only query is as I am using 
python in postinst script, is it sufficient to mention it as part of 
Depends or should it still be mentioned in Pre-Depends?

Apart from that, as per the response given by Neil and also my 
sponsorer, I think the below logic should do fine for the upgrade script.

Thanks,
Rahul.

On Monday 27 December 2010 10:16 PM, Aron Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 00:32, Rahul Amaram
> <amaramrahul@users.sourceforge.net>  wrote:
>    
> > Hi Neil,
> > Thanks for the response. I didn't intend to work on this update as per my
> > leisure. I greatly admire the Debian release team for the effort they put
> > in, in trying to make Debian a great experience to the end users. As I've
> > already told you, I am new and therefore didn't know of the deep-freeze of
> > Squeeze. Or else I would have definitely worked on it earlier itself.
> >
> > Anyway, coming back to the solution. This is what I plan to do. Kindly
> > provide any necessary feedback.
> >
> > 1. Stop the server in preinst and if necessary copy the current
> > configuration file to a temporary location.
> > 2. In postinst, write python code to check if NSS directory service is being
> > used (by parsing the configuration file) and if so take the appropriate
> > action. Once this is done, delete the temporary copy of configuration file.
> >
> > Also I believe for this, python needn't be added to Pre-Depends but only to
> > Depends.
> >
> >      
> I still think adding python to Depends only because a maintainer
> script needs it is costing too much, if the application itself doesn't
> need python at all.
>
>