Re: ldconfig in postinst

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:31PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Check the contents of the postinst script in the binary package.  The
> > #DEBHELPER# line gets replaced with debhelper hints based on the various dh_*
> > commands you've called, and if you call dh_makeshlibs, this will include a
> > call to ldconfig in the postinst and the postrm.
> > 
> this happens only if you set DH_COMPAT=3 somewhere in your debian/rules and if
> you are using debhelper, of course
> 

Yes.  dh_makeshlibs doesn't put ldconfig in the debhelper script.  I'm
running at DH_COMPAT=2.  It's a bit of an old package I've adopted, so I'm a
bit worried about getting too carried away modernising it...

Drew

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