Re: Detecting install vs upgrade in postinst

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:22:18AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 12:22 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > [Please CC me on replies.  Aside: in my previous mail, I set both
> > Mail-Followup-To and Reply-To to include myself.  What mailer and mechanism did
> > you use to reply that didn't look at either of those headers?]
> 
> Evolution, Reply to List (Ctrl-L).

Thanks; looks like that's https://bugs.debian.org/153244 .

> > Sounds great!
> > 
> > Would that potentially make it easier to run via dpkg trigger, rather than
> > postinst, so that it does less duplicate work during an apt run that involves
> > multiple kernel-related packages?
> 
> No, I think that would result in worse decisions about what the default
> kernel version should be.

Depends on the criteria for setting the default kernel version; ideally
that should always produce the same result for a given set of kernel
packages (assuming the user hasn't overridden it).

- Josh Triplett