On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: <snip> > A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, > though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), > maintscripts (debian women? I don't fully grok these yet!), and > upgrade handling with eg. split packages and Replaces. I've looked through most of these resources. However some of the packaging structure still seems to be missing. I know I mentioned this before but apparently if you have a config file in your debian directory this script is called prior to the preinst script and is supposed to be used for your debconf questions. What is interesting is that I haven't seen this any of this documented anywhere, I only happened upon it because a debian developer pointed it out. Is there any kind of documentation that would point out features like this out there. I'm not even terribly concerned with it all being in one location, I can do the collection of it myself. I just find that it makes it really hard to start building packages in an efficient manner when after several months of hacking away someone comes by and says "You know you should really be doing it this way" having no clue that that way even exsited. Sorry for the rant, it's just a little frustrating. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . monkey@monkey.homeip.net D). ((` http://monkey.homeip.net/ ( ) `
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