Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?
Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org> writes:
>>> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as
>>> Package: in postinst?
>> Generally, you don't, since generally there's no reason to do so. I
>> can't say I've ever had any reason to want to do that in any of the
>> Debian packages I maintain.
> Introspection isn't a particularly exotic function.
This discussion is missing a motivating application. The glimmers that
I've gotten from your original discussion seemed to me like a basically
incorrect design, leading to needing features that wouldn't be required by
a better design. But I can't tell for sure since I'm not sure what you're
really trying to do.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're writing complex postinst code,
you're doing something wrong. There are exceptions, but not a lot of
them, and mostly for very complex packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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