Interactive upgrade hooks

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 11 09:50:32 CST 2005


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:20:06AM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> What's the general differens between this and debconf? Do you mean
> that in this case  it should be a user change instead of a system
> change.

debconf is a system for asking questions of the user during package
installation.  What I have described is a system for queueing user
interaction for post-installation.

> In the example of UTF-8 I think it should be enough to let that be
> done by debconf?

If you look at the description of the migration tool, you'll see that this
wouldn't be appropriate.

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 - mdz



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