Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:

> It is however reason to tell dpkg that something went wrong with
> configuring ae.  ...  the postinst did not succeeded and should not
> pretend it did.

Perhaps something like this would be appropriate:

  #! /bin/sh
  set -e
  exit_code=0

  set +e
    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /bin/ae 20 \
      --slave /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz editor.1.gz /usr/man/man1/ae.1.gz
    exit_code=$?
  set -e

  if [ -e /etc/ae2vi.rc ] ; then
     rm -f /etc/ae2vi.rc
  fi

  exit $exit_code

This lets the postinst finish even if update-alternatives fails, but
it also notifies dpkg of the problem.

-- 
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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