Ignacio Valdes <ival...@hal-pc.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> Ignacio Valdes <ival...@hal-pc.org> writes:
>>> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as >>> Package: in postinst? >> Generally, you don't, since generally there's no reason to do so. I >> can't say I've ever had any reason to want to do that in any of the >> Debian packages I maintain. > Introspection isn't a particularly exotic function. This discussion is missing a motivating application. The glimmers that I've gotten from your original discussion seemed to me like a basically incorrect design, leading to needing features that wouldn't be required by a better design. But I can't tell for sure since I'm not sure what you're really trying to do. As a general rule of thumb, if you're writing complex postinst code, you're doing something wrong. There are exceptions, but not a lot of them, and mostly for very complex packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hnpq5or....@windlord.stanford.edu
