Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Doogie asked me to send in a list of ways dpkg could better support > > debconf. In rough order of usefulness: > > > > 1. Run config script under debconf before running postinst script of > > package, passing in appropriate arguments. /usr/bin/debconf takes a > > script to run under debconf and arguments to pass to the script as > > parameters, and this is what it was designed for. > > Don't you mean running the config script before preinst? That would be nice, and indeed ideal, but doing that right would probably mean adding an additional package state to dpkg. As I discuss here: > > An old patch to do this is > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2001/debian-dpkg-200102/msg00003.html > > Also has useful discussion of why it may be better to run the > > config script after the preinst, not before it. Running the config script after the preinst makes some intuitive things like dpkg --configure on a half-configured or broken package work more as expected. -- see shy jo
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