Re: finding version of package being installed in postinst
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version
> of a package was from postinst?
>
> What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream
> version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with
> different ones. It is both impossible to automatically convert the
> old options to new ones, and it is very hard to reliably check for the
> presence of old options.
>
> So I wondered if I could somehow find out if the user is upgrading
> from a version before this upstream version, and issue a message
> referring to a document somewhere in /usr/share/doc during postinst.
I have faced the same problem with a package for the last days. If you find
out, please let me know :-)
>
> Is it possible?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> Ivo
>
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