Re: Postponing postinst stuff for later execution
On Mit, 20 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Are there any ideas how one can do this?
>
> Yes, the code is in the zope packages who do this. Be warned, however:
Uhh, well, into this I don't want to dig for now.
> As far as I remember, if one of these commands fail, there is no way to
> tell the user which package to blame, and it's hard to fix it
> temporarily (until an updated package exists).
Hmm, ok. SO for now I have reworked the scripts that at least only those
formats are created that are actually new installed.
But for the more time-consuming stuff, the updmap-sys, I have still no
solution. Pity.
Best wishes
Norbert
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