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Bug#170276: acknowledged by developer (Re: apt: [wish] Way to invoke command(s) after an APT session during which dpkg was called.)



On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:48, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> #170276: apt: [wish] Way to invoke command(s) after an APT session during which dpkg was called.,
> which was filed against the apt package.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
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> message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email.
> 
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:37:16 -0500
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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> Subject: Re: apt: [wish] Way to invoke command(s) after an APT session during which dpkg was called.
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> > There should be a way to specify that some arbitrary shell command(s)
> > should be run after an APT session during which dpkg was invoked. This
> > could be used to update the dlocate database when packages are changed,
> > for example.
> 
> man 5 apt.conf:
> 
>        Pre-Invoke
> 
>        Post-Invoke
> 	      This is a list of shell commands to  run  before/after
> 	      invoking dpkg(8).   Like Options this must be specified in
> 	      list notation.  The commands are invoked in order using
> 	      /bin/sh, should any fail APT will abort.
> 
> > Taking this concept a little further, APT could search a directory full of
> > scripts (/etc/apt/postproc.d/ or some such) and run each one in order, and
> > packages (such as dlocate) could drop scripts into that directory to be
> > run, making the process of updating the dlocate database completely
> > automatic and transparent to the system administrator.
> 
> 
> man 8 apt-get:
> 
>        /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
> 		     APT   configuration   file   fragments    Configuration
> 		     Item: Dir::Etc::Parts.

This didn't exist last time I checked. Sorry for wasting your time. You
can close this bug now.

Alex.

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