[rock-devel] rejected cron/00-updates hack for tetex (Was: Re:[rock-sm] 2005010117445819765 clifford msg no reaction to mycomments for a long ti)

[Clifford Wolf]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:23:53AM +0200, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> What about something like /sbin/postinstall/30-tetex.sh, a postinstall 
> script that is executed by e.g. mine after installing the package? Every 
> package that needs it provides it's own file. If multiple packages are 
> installed at once, the postinstall scripts should be executed (in order) 
> after copying the files of all packages. This might require a new parameter 
> for mine to read the list of packages to install from a file or standard 
> input. One could also run these scripts manually when installing .tar.bz2 
> packages.

There is already a (i think) pretty good proposal for how the postinstall
scripts should be implemented. However -  I had no time so far to implement
it. I'll see if I can find the papers from the ml archive and post a link
to them later today..

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