Re: Not able to understand debian-policy 8.1.1
On 13/07/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> In http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html , In
> section 8.1.1, in the second paragraph it says
>
> The package must call |ldconfig| in the |postinst| script if the first
> argument is configure; ......... The package should call |ldconfig| in
> the |postrm| script if the first argument is remove. ............
>
> first argument to what? a command or a file or a script? Which file is
> being referred to?
Read postrm.ex and postinst.ex and you'll see what the mean.
Basicly:
apt-get remove <package> will cause at the end of the process, if
there postrm in existance to be called, with the argument "remove".
>
> It is probably trivial once you know the answer. But I am confused as to
> what this paragraph is trying to say.
>
> thanks in advance
> raju
>
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> Cornell University
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