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Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?



On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote:
> Ignacio Valdes wrote:
>> It is a very complex, large package.
>> Does anyone know the mechanics of doing introspection in postinst for
>> the control file defined variables?
>>
> Exactly why the postinst generation method that has been given as a
> (pretty good) solution would not work?

Required to produce versions for both rpm and deb.  No introspection
means not easy to convert this from rpm to deb which is where this
started.  This would make it much easier to produce both deb and rpm
versions if it has the ability to introspect those variables.

-- IV


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