TurnKey Linux's take on Ubuntu appliance development: KISS

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:31:44AM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Now, there is something nobody has said yet: order of installation.
> That's the main difficulty I see with packages (and rest assured, I am
> all for using packages to build appliances). AFAIK you cannot
> guarantee in what order will apt install the packages, therefore it
> might happen that postfix-appliance-config is installed before postfix
> and, well, it won't work.

I don't believe this is true.  Quoting from the Debian Policy Manual:

  The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or postrm scripts
  require the package to be present in order to run. Note, however, that the
  postrm cannot rely on any non-essential packages to be present during the
  purge phase.

I think that this implies that a depended-upon package is guaranteed to be
unpacked before executing the postinst script for the package with the
dependency.  I assume that's where you'd run your configuration customization.

Thanks,
Forest
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