Re: setup preremove postremove

Preremove is to do things like removing cached rebased .dll's etc - things you can only do while the rest of your package is installed. postremove is to do cleanup that you cannot do while the rest of your package is installed. Rob -- GPG key available at:

setup preremove postremove

Hi everyone Sorry if this post should have gone elsewhere (I'm sure somebody will correct it ;) I'm museing about trying to get /etc/profile to update itself. What I'm currently debating is a script which runs before the new files are installed which compares /etc/profile with /etc/defaults/etc/