Re: code reuse in debian/package.config
Okay, my mistake. When you apt-get install packageA, is
libxyz-common-tools installed as well? If so, is it installed before or
after packageA?
On 29/12/14 09:39, Yuri Oleynikov (יורי אולייניקוב wrote:
> because 'apt-get install packageA' should pick up and install all its
> dependencies automatically
>
> 2014-12-29 0:32 GMT+02:00 Riley Baird <
> BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4Xix@bitmessage.ch>:
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>> On 29/12/14 09:08, Yuri Oleynikov (יורי אולייניקוב wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> So happened i'm maintainer of debian packages in my company.
>>> And i have the following situation:
>>> There're several deb packages that using debconf to ask user input during
>>> installation, apply initial configuration, etc with:
>>> * debian/package.config
>>> * debian/package.preinst
>>> * debian/package.postinst
>>>
>>> Seems quiet simple, until number of packages were grown and i noticed
>> that
>>> packageA.configs, pacakgeB...packageZ.config (the same for
>>> debian/package.postinsts) script code is 90% same (or atleast VERY
>> similar)
>>> code, a lot of same mistakes and bugs because of copy-pastes.
>>>
>>> OK, i wrote some shell "library" that covers that 90% code base, created
>> a
>>> package (call it libxyz-common-tools with just
>>> /usr/share/libxyz/config-tool, without config or pre-postinst - just
>>> unpack), let make packageA-packageZ be depends or pre-depends on it.
>>>
>>> apt-get install libxyz-common-tools
>>> apt-get install packageA
>>>
>>> Everything is OK.
>>>
>>> But, when installing packageA without libxyz-common-tools is
>> preinstalled -
>>> packageA.config script won' run?
>>>
>>> Is there any way to solve the problem?
>>
>> I'm confused as to what you mean. If libxyz-common-tools is a dependency
>> of packageA, then why would you be trying to install packageA without
>> libxyz-common-tools installed?
>>
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