Re: Configuration management and packages
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Seems like the thing to do is agree to and adjust policy such that preinst
> does not interrupt the process (ie, no prompts) and modify dpkg to support
> --unpack-only or similar.. Then apt just needs to sort out predepends.
> Predepends are the only time when you'd need to finish postinst BEFORE you
> could unpack other programs..
>
> In the case of predepends, I have no idea what to do. But if all the
> postinst that could be was saved till after everything else was done, you
> just come back to the machine and answer remaining questions...
APT already all of does this.
Jason
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