Hi everyone Sorry if this post should have gone elsewhere (I'm sure somebody will correct it ;)
I'm museing about trying to get /etc/profile to update itself. What I'm currently debating is a script which runs before the new files are installed which compares /etc/profile with /etc/defaults/etc/profile and, if they are identical, deletes /etc/profile (and possibly doing the same for all the other files in the base-files package). My question is this, where should the script reside; preremove or postremove? What's the difference? How can any script in postremove run when setup should have removed all files for a package? Does either/both get run for a package update? :) Thanks, J.