Re: howto create debian package with conf files

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10:26AM +0200, lucas kenter wrote:
> Wow,
> 
> Thanks for the quick and helpfull response Matthew and ehm... I suppose this
> is what they mean by "Debians helpfull community"! I'm possitively amazed!
> :-D
> 
> one more question though,
> 
> >  So you could do something like this in your postinst:
> >
> > if [ "$1" = "configure" -a "$2" = "" ]; then
> >        # Ask your questions
> > fi
> >
> > Because the only time that the second argument will be empty is on the
> > initial install -- after that, $2 will always contain the previously
> > configured version.
>
> Would this still allow users to issue a dpkg-reconfigure?

Now *that* is an interesting question I've never explored.  I'll leave that
one up to you to test.  If you put:

echo $*

at the top of your postinst, though, and then install, upgrade, and
dpkg-reconfigure your package and see what happens...

- Matt