Re: Deb package update in depth

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Kirill Proskurin wrote:
>
> I'm trying to understand how deb package update happens in details.
> Is it transaction of some kind? Atomic? Temp dirs and move? And so on. I 
> cant find any info about this in official docs and in Google in general.

  dpkg is the tool used which uses various rules
at different stages.

  for an overview of how to make a package you
can use the documentation at:

  https://www.debian.org/devel/

  and questions or issues can be answered via the
mentors mailing list, or perhaps the archive will
have the answer already supplied.

  the developers reference, newmaint and policy 
guides are there along with a draft PHP policy.


> I want to package our in house php code in deb and deploy it in 
> production servers. But nature of this code implies what there is 
> shouldn't be any race of mix of old\new files.

  i'm sure it can be done since the current PHP 
installation exists and gets upgraded at times.

  perhaps examining the PHP debs in conjunction
with the documentation will give you the answers.


  songbird