On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:42:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/21/2008 9:28 AM: >>There's also the fact that neither bash nor texinfo have postinstall >>scripts themselves. > >Actually, bash does. But as of my most recent build, it only ensures >that /dev/stdin and friends exist (hmm, I haven't validated whether >that still works with /etc/fstab...). In other words, now that /bin/sh >is unpacked prior to any postinstall scripts, it no longer matters >whether other packages' postinstalls run before or after bash, unless >their postinstall wants to use /dev/stdin (unlikely).
...and, AFAICT, if you remove _update-info-dir's dependencies, the bash postinstall still runs first. cgf
