Re: /etc/ question
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:15:37AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > Remember to correctly unwind, moving the conffile back to its original place
> > (as long as the original file does not exist) in the abort-install and
> > abort-upgrade targets of preinst, postrm and postinst. [never tried this,
> > but that seems to be what's needed from the not-so-clear policy chapter 6]
>
> In the package I maintain, called crafty, I moved /etc/craftyrc to
> /etc/crafty.rc and /var/cache/crafty to /var/lib/crafty in the previous
> version (17.9). Version now is 17.13. The 'move' routine is still in preinst
> of the latest version because we don't know what version people are upgrading
> from.
>
> Now that's my problem : if upgrade fails or is aborted, I should move the files
> back to their original location. But if people are upgrading from a 'post-move'
> version, the original location is different than if they were upgrading from a
> 'pre-move' location.
>
> So, where do I move the files back ???
Copy in the preinst, remove the old one in the postinst (with
"configure" argument). That'll do the job.
Julian
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