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From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unnecessary logs: has_version to the rescue?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:37:23
Message-Id: 4BB3B279.4060308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unnecessary logs: has_version to the rescue? by Zac Medico
1 On 03/31/10 22:31, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > For those who may not know, has_version can be called in pkg_preinst
3 > to find the previous version, and the result can be stored in a
4 > variable for us in pkg_postinst.
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6 So has_version takes the version just installed into account when called
7 from pkg_postinst? If so wouldn't be banning it's usage from that stage
8 a good idea? I just checked the code, no such check, yet.
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12 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unnecessary logs: has_version to the rescue? Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>