Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 Jun 2006, Frank Küster told this: > >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 14 Jun 2006, Steve Langasek outgrape: >>> >>>> Just like there's no guarantee that saying "no" to a conffile >>>> prompt when upgrading across stable releases will give you a >>>> usable package. >>> >>> I prefer in that case not to install the new version of the >>> package; since questions can be missed in a dist-upgrade. Some of >>> my packages default to not upgrading unless some questions are >>> answered affirmatively -- so the end result is still a working >>> package (as long as the dependencies still exist). >> >> How do you achieve this? The conffile questions are displayed after >> the new package is unpacked, so isn't a failing postinst all you can >> get? How do you get back to the old version? > > I ask the questions in preinst.
So you aren't talking about dpkg's conffile questions, right? Or is there a trick? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
