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Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep



[replying to the right list, this time]

On 22/09/2015 18:32, Achim Gratz wrote:
Jon Turney writes:
Since we now have scripts which run on every setup run, a package which requires
another package to do some work after it is installed or uninstalled can create
a file to act as a trigger for that to happen.

There aren't any stratified scripts for pre-remove, so a lot of the
things that you might wish for don't work anyway.  So again it would
need to be fixed without getting a trigger or setup would need to be
made a lot smarter than it is today.

I thought that permanent postinstall scripts run even when no packages are being installed, or only packages are being removed, so they they are effectively run every time setup is?

Unfortunately, it's not very practical to change to doing that for the all
packages which contain info files, so I am suggesting this approach.

So just do it unconditionally; I was planning to change _update-info-dir
accordingly, but haven't found the time yet.  I do the same with mandb
locally already and I haven't looked back.

Tempting, but I don't believe that is a good solution, since it adds the time it takes to rebuild the info directory to every setup run.

$ time /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh.done

real    0m18.169s
user    0m3.261s
sys     0m5.703s

I also don't think it sets a good example. Any other packages which require update scripts to run (which may take even longer) when packages are installed/removed, should not be doing that every time setup is run, if avoidable.


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