Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:28:55AM +0000, Alan Woodland wrote:
> For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in
> Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird
> (preliminary packages are avalible from
> http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and mozilla-snapshot. The
> problem is that in order to do this I need to do different things for
> each of the browsers in postinst and postrm.
Won't there be problems if $user installs mozilla-mozgest while
running mozilla-firebird and chooses later to purge mozilla-firebird
and install plain mozilla instead?
> Basicaly what I'd like to
> know is if theres a nicer way to test if a package is installed than
> just testing the existance of files that the package would create if it
> was installed?
No. Unless you think "dpkg -s" is nicer. I had asked practically the
same question on this list some months ago, I wanted to discern inn,
inn2 and cnews.
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 19:08:00 +0200
From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Message-ID: <20020622170800.GA1610@downhill.at.eu.org>
cu andreas
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