Interactive upgrade hooks

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:46:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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.)

Yes, this is what I intended; if you have suggestions to clarify the
language in the wiki, by all means make corrections in that direction.

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 - mdz