Re: providing custom actions

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Phil D'Amore <damorep@redhat.com> [2004.10.31.0219 +0200]:
> I'm not sure how it would fit in to all of the dpkg manipulation
> you speak of, but I have been sitting on a patch for 2.1.10-ish
> that adds an action= argument to packages: actions.

Oh, nice!

> Right now it supports an install action pretty fully.  I added the
> framework for a remove action, but have not really implemented it
> yet, because the nuances of dealing with deps on a package remove
> operation can be more complex and order sensitive.

For Debian, we'd just use APT instead of dpkg, which just gets it
right. So all I really need is a way to call a programme with a list
of parameters.

It will be a while before I can inspect your patch.

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