Re: Woody to Sarge upgrade and Debian menu.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:44:26PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op di, 11-01-2005 te 17:39 +0100, schreef Richard Atterer:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > So what would you advise me to do ?
> >
> > Why don't you ship a dummy "update-menus" command? In the unpacked package,
> > the command could be a shell script which does nothing. The postinst could
> > then replace that script with the correct binary.
>
> Because that would break other packages.
Not if the shell script in question queued the commands for later
execution by update-menus proper.
> What I'm really wondering about, though, is why you need to ship it that
> way. I thought dpkg shipped packages in dependency order, if possible;
> doesn't it?
Many packages that use update-menus only Suggests: menu, and dpkg
doesn't enforce order in that case.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
Reply to: