Re: How to obtain current package version number?
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:22:51 -0600, Graham Wilson <bob@decoy.wox.org>
wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Well, I wouldn't have posted without first consulting policy and
>> developer's reference. Section 6.4 doesn't seem to document any
>> maintainer script of the package being installed being called with the
>> new version number as a parameter, so I was actually hoping that dpkg
>> sends that information in the environment or somewhere else.
>
>in what particular maintainer script are you trying to get this
>information?
In postinst.
>> Maybe I have missed something, but again, simply hurling an
>> unspecified pointer to the docs doesn't help.
>
>sorry again. i will try to be more verbose next time.
No offense taken.
Greetings
Marc
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