On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:52:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:41:48 +0000, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Why not just preprocess the postinst in debian/rules to embed its own > >version number directly into it? > > Nice idea, thanks! > > Is an executeable script (for example an init script) allowed to parse > /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PACKAGE.postinst?
No - but you could do the same preprocessing for the init script, couldn't you? It might also help if you elaborated on why you need this ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
