Very simple! I should have figured it out myself. Many thanks though.
On 6 Dec 2006, at 16:09, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Murali Vadivelu wrote: > >> The annoying thing about the the functioning of the script is that >> it gets executed after dpkg replaces the old programme by the new >> one, after an 'update ccpnmr-xx-xx' comand or 'update-all' >> command. This leaves the user with no installation of the >> programme! The only way to make it work is to first remove the >> old version and the freshly install the new version. >> Is this a dpkg bug, and if it is can a shotgun fix be added to >> fink to execute fink remove and fink install, sequentially, >> instead of whatever is happening now in the direct (overwrite?) >> upgrade that is happening now. > > dpkg passes an argument to the script telling you what it's doing. > If you only want to do something if it's being fully removed, you > need to do: > > if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ]; then > # do stuff > fi > > -- > Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick > Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development > http://www.racoonfink.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
