Interactive upgrade hooks

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:34:57AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! Added to the wiki.

bye,
 Michael 

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