On Jun 03, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> wrote: > > stretch+1 (or maybe +2): > > - Check existance/non-emptiness of > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules in udev.preinst, > > Show critical debconf note, and refuse to upgrade > No. It is always a real pain when a preinst script fails. This part is not negotiable, because: > So, you can show a debconf note, try (or not) to migrate the file > automatically, remove (or comment-out) the 70-persistent-net.rules, > or ... but, please, do not write a preinst script that fails > because the admin did not update its config before upgrading. None of these solutions is applicable: either the upgrade can continue or the network interfaces names will change with unpredictable consequences. > One "good" solution would probably a new kind of scripts run > by dpkg and apt *prior to any other things* (for all involved > packages) to decide if the upgrade can run or not. But that This is more or less what apt does when apt-extracttemplates from apt-utils is available. -- ciao, Marco
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