Interactive upgrade hooks

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:07:22PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I wrote a short draft here:
> 
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/InteractiveUpgradeHooks
> 
> which should explain the idea.  Feedback and corrections are welcome.

update-notifier is quite high up in our stack; it's in the desktop, not
in base, and it's a graphical program which may not be running at the
time of the upgrade. Can I suggest that something in base should receive
the hook registrations instead, and update-notifier should read the
registrations from that? Ideally it should be possible for an interested
user to run something on shell login that deals with pending
registrations without having to have any of the desktop installed beyond
what's needed to process the actions.

(If you actually meant that update-notifier should read the list of
registrations out of somewhere in the packaging system, then we're
probably talking about the same thing in different language.)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]