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Re: [Attn Maintainer] octave


Marco Atzeri writes:
> if I understood correctly a script called
>
>   /etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash
>
> will be always executed at the end of the postinstall script
> sequence and never renamed as ".done".

Yes.

> I am moving the octave update script in
>  /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list
>
> so the new octave update should work as:
>
> 1) every octave-forge preremove/postinstall script
>    touches /var/lib/octave/update.flag
>
> 2) zp_octave_finish.dash checks if
>    /var/lib/octave/update.flag exists
>   and if so execute
>   /usr/bin/octave-cli /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list
>
> 3) /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list
>    updates the octave package database and removes the
>   /var/lib/octave/update.flag

Yes, that's how it works.

> If there are no fork issue on 32 bit, I will implement
> in this way on 4.0.0 that I am just building together with
> update of the 50s octave-forge packages.

If there are fork issues, they would be hitting the users just the same.
Again, autorebase runs before any other postinstall scripts.


Regards,
Achim.
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