Hi all, As per policy, my unofficial package of IRAF now includes a perl script update-extern.pkg.pl which is installed in /usr/bin/. It will be used by external IRAF packages, each of which need to update extern.pkg. Of course, each also depends on IRAF. If memory serves, the script shouldn't have the .pl extension; can someone remind me why? (I like it because then vim color-highlights it). This script takes two arguments: the first is "add|remove" and the second is the name of the external pacakge. Both actually do "remove" first, for idempotency. I'm wondering how this should be implemented in the maintscripts. All that _needs_ to happen is: - run add for initial installation only - run remove for removal What I think I'd like to do is also run add on upgrades, in case my script changes and I want to fix something. Debian's maintscripts obviously allow for much more generality than I need, so I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm that the following makes sense: preinst: upgrade) add install) add postrm: remove) delete I don't think its worth implementing error-unwind, because if my script fails once, I see no reason why it won't fail again. So, all the other arguments will fall into *) exit 1; Cheers, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ References [1] http://www.justinpryzby.com/iraf.noao.edu/update-extern.pkg.sh
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