Re: Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

On 05/03/18 14:35, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:08 PM, George Shuklin wrote: There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? Probably dpkg doesn't support declarative mechanisms for

Why debian use postinst for declarative actions?

Hello. There is a big question with torture me for awhile. Why some purely declarative operations are performed by non-standard postinst scripts? I've checked few well-established packages (openssh, nginx, systemd, dbus, cups, etc) - each of them have slightly different code for such operatio

user management

Hello. Is any better way to add a system user for a daemon then writing a bash script by hand? Some kind of dh_user helper... Thank you.

Re: Add encled to Debian

On 07/07/2015 11:34 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: On 7 July 2015 at 22:01, George Shuklin wrote: I'm searching for someone (mentor? sponsor?) to help me with upload/accepting package for Debian. Encled is a script I wrote to manage LED indicators of hot-swap bays in servers with enclo

Add encled to Debian

Hello. I'm searching for someone (mentor? sponsor?) to help me with upload/accepting package for Debian. Encled is a script I wrote to manage LED indicators of hot-swap bays in servers with enclosures (backplanes). It allows to see neat table with slots/enclosures/disk letters, and allows to

quilt and debian-jenkins-glue

Hello. I'm using debian-jenkins-glue (and jenkins) to build packages. d-j-g expects to have upstream code in branch 'upstream' and debian part in branch 'debian' or 'master'. It works fine, but I always have problems with quilt. If I want to add patch, or refresh, or change - it always complicate