Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I can be wrong, but for me, the classification needed in postinst > would be only two-way, not three way.
Agreed. > Please let me know if three-way > classification can be relevant under some circumstances. Just to > mention it for completeness sake, the arguments to postinst give such > information like this: > > postinst with $1 == configure > > (a) if $2 == "" ==> coming from purged: can create file > blindly > > (b) if $2 != "" ==> coming from installed (at version $2) > or 'rc' (with $2 being the last version): Literally, $2 is "most-recently-configured-version". I read this as "none if there is no configured version", but it might as well mean "none only if there never *was* a configured version". This is why I thought I needed to discriminate. Note that I unsubscribed from all Debian lists for a while, so please Cc me if you think that it's not sufficient for me to look it up in the archive in a couple of weeks. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer