Re: (fwd) Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>> I guess a failed trigger should leave the triggering package in a non
>> "installed" state as well so it retriggers on every configure run and
>> can be listed by dpkg as a source for failure.
>
> Yes, but it should be listed. Maybe the trigger itself should have a
> "failed" state, too. Then, if it is requested again, it will be run
> once first *before* new triggers are registered. This means that only
> the really buggy package will be in "failed-config" state, the others
> are just unpacked/half-configured.
>
> Regards, Frank
Bad idea. Say foobar 1.0 is installed already. Blafase 1.0 gets
installed and triggers foobar and fails due to a bug in foobar.
Now you want to install foobar 1.1 to fix the bug.
If dpkg runs the trigers again first then it will just fail again and
again and never update to a working foobar version.
MfG
Goswin
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