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Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude



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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:18:24PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
> On 2018-03-28 20:12, Sven Joachim wrote:

[...]

> > It requires you to create your own package (since there is no other way
> > to register triggers in dpkg) [...]

> I really thought there's some easy way to include user's scripts when you want
> to make some additional changes to the upgraded packages, but it looks like the
> apt mechanism is a little bit limited. But I will try to do something with the
> trigger and see how that will work.

I think the trick is to create a (nearly) empty package "my-firefox-custom"
which depends on firefox and thus pulls it in before its own post-install
takes over.

Cheers
- -- t
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