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Re: dh_installinit...



On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:48, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> To do so I need the initscript to make a difference if the package is
> called from postinst (don't exist with error status code) or not (exit
> with error status code to allow an admin to script something e.g.).

Don't try to control the exit status with an environment variable.
Let the initscript return a nonzero status.  If you need to ignore
the status (because you have "set -e") then append '|| :' to the
line that returns the error status.

    $ false || :
    $ echo $?
    0

--
Thomas



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