On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version > of a package was from postinst? > > What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream > version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with > different ones. It is both impossible to automatically convert the > old options to new ones, and it is very hard to reliably check for the > presence of old options. > > So I wondered if I could somehow find out if the user is upgrading > from a version before this upstream version, and issue a message > referring to a document somewhere in /usr/share/doc during postinst.
I have faced the same problem with a package for the last days. If you find out, please let me know :-) > > Is it possible? > > thanks. > > > Ivo > > -- > Poak poak, I'm a pengaru! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]