Re: to conffile or not to conffile
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> 1) Does Debian have any useful packaging utilities used for simple
> programmatic editing of text files? I'm not thinking sed/awk/perl
I think not. The code is there, but scattered over a thousand packages and
in different incarnations as every maintainer that needs it ends up
reinventing the weel.
> Something like this implemented in Perl, Python, or Ruby might be a
> useful maintainer tool. The starting point could be cfengine's
As long as it is easy to interface from POSIX sh, I agree with you.
> 2) Is there anything wrong with a package's postinst script requiring
> Ruby? If not, how would I express the dependency? Were I to
No, there's nothing wrong with that, but please consider carefully if the
dependency is worth it, as it will mean bringing a little-used language
support into all systems that need your package.
You just need a simple Depends:, as long as you only use Ruby in postinst
and *rm.
> implement the above idea I'd want to do it in that language --
> doing OO stuff in Perl makes me want to cry.
Well, you could do OO stuff in shell :-) See shoop
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