Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Biebl [2008-10-03 21:48 +0200]: >> I had a short discussion with lool on irc, and we had an alternative idea: >> Install a dpkg trigger. > > Ah, indeed that sounds like a great idea, and much less blunt than > changing the init script (sorry for the kneejerk patch, had to do > something quick to unscrew the Ubuntu upgrade to 8.10 beta). > > However, so far I thought that dpkg triggers are triggered by postinst > scripts. There are triggers for "any package installed/upgraded", too? > I'm not very familiar with triggers, apparently you know more than me. > :-)
Calling a trigger explicitely in postinst is only one possibility. The one I had in mind would be a file based trigger. This trigger would be installed by the hal package. Whenever a package installs a file under /usr/share/hal/fdi, the trigger would be activated. So we don't need to modify all packages shipping fdi files. I've committed a proposed fix as r2435 [1] >> For the etch -> lenny upgrade, we would regenerate the fdi cache in hal >> postinst as we can't rely on the dpkg triggers functionality yet. > > Right, that makes perfect sense. Actually, as sjoerd correctly noticed, we don't even need that, as the etch version doesn't have a cache yet ;-) Have a nice weekend, Michael [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia/?rev=2435&sc=1 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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