On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:16:18AM -0000, Thomas Hood wrote: > The Debian policy scripture says: "When a package declaring a pre- > dependency [in this case, resolvconf] is about to be unpacked the pre- > dependency can be satisfied if the depended-on package [in this case, > initscripts] is either fully configured, or even if the depended-on > package(s) are only unpacked or in the "Half-Configured" state, provided > that they have been configured correctly at some point in the past (and > not removed or partially removed since)."
> Does this mean that it is possible that resolvconf's preinst runs before > initscripts's postinst on upgrade? It looks to me as if it does mean > that. No; it means that if a version of initscripts that satisfied the pre-dependency had previously been configured, resolvconf may be unpacked while initscripts is in an unconfigured state. But the ordering on upgrade is guaranteed to be preserved. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/927300 Title: upgrade from fresh/basic 11.10 to precise, resolveconf fails:cp: cannot create regular file `/run/resolvconf/resolv.conf': No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/927300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
