TurnKey Linux's take on Ubuntu appliance development: KISS

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 8 06:44:55 GMT 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:50:57PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > If you're interested in the deb installation procedure, take a look at
> > the Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts and
> > installation procedure [1].

> > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html

> There is no information there about the order in which dependent
> packages are configured.

No, because that's not defined and you must not rely on any particular order
of configuration *among* the dependencies.  A package that needs another
package configured first must depend on that other package.

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