On Friday 30 April 2010 11:12:57 Ignacio Valdes wrote: > So I am gathering that whereas it is repugnant to the dpkg design > scheme to do it, but for the sake of rpm reconciliation the thread > subject question: accessing control file values in postinst is not > simple to do other than with major changes like sed pre-processing and > such?
I wouldn't say it is "repugnant", but the postinst scripts should generally be
able to be run independently of even having the control fields available.
I also wouldn't say that sed pre-processing at .deb build time is a "major
change".
> Is that the situation?
Yes, dpkg does not (currently) expose the control fields in the environment
that the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts are run.
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