Re: Ordering
On 9 Mar 1998 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
> > I think I have solved a majority of the problems with ordering, my biggest
> > fear is that the limited interface to dpkg is going to make a mess of
> > everything (imagine, tell it to do something, it fails, you have no idea
> > what failed..)
>
> One would think you could query the status of all of the packages you asked
> it to operate on. You can get back what packages installed, what packages are
> in an inconsistent state, etc. This will not tell you that the postinst failed.
The trouble is the information arrives a bit to late to do anything about,
I am not even sure what to do in case of a failure, bail or continue?
What is the word on install scripts, should they fail in normal
circumstances or only in exceptional ones?
Jason
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