Re: dpkg enhancements for better debconf support
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 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.
Well, the way Wichert as explained to me how he plans on implementing hooks,
there will have to be a new dpkg state.
Of course, Wichert has been inactive lately on this list, and in cvs, so we'll
have to defer to him as to what his intentions are.
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