On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > was just installed. So you should leave the K scripts about, rather than completely removing all the links. Or changing the word `start' in /etc/init.d/xdm to `begin', or so. > A postinst script cannot distinguish between an > initial install and an upgrade, therefore you can't add some kind of > conditional around the update-rc.d call in the postinst. if [ "$1" = "configure" -a -z "$2" ]; then : initial install fi Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and working code.'' -- Dave Clark
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