Interactive upgrade hooks

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:24:32PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:

> Tollef and I designed a proposed spec and put it on the
> wiki. Feedback is very welcome. A format for the hook file is
> suggested (closley modeled after debconf so that we can use some of
> there tools, e.g. debconf2pot) and a basic concept how it can be added
> to update-notifier. 
>
> The "post-upgrade hook was run" information will be put in a format
> that is easy to use by text-based tools as well. The idea is that it
> should be easy to write a tool that tells the user about the
> "post-upgrade hooks" and possibly about updates too (as Colin
> suggested). 

Looks great!

One extension I would suggest would be to include an optional priority(?)
field in the hooks, and use that to display an appropriate icon in a list of
pending actions.

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 - mdz