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Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude

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On 2018-03-29 03:40, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:18:24PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
>> On 2018-03-28 20:12, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> I really thought there's some easy way to include user's scripts when you want
>> to make some additional changes to the upgraded packages, but it looks like the
>> apt mechanism is a little bit limited. But I will try to do something with the
>> trigger and see how that will work.
> 
> I think the trick is to create a (nearly) empty package "my-firefox-custom"
> which depends on firefox and thus pulls it in before its own post-install
> takes over.
> This sounds as if it should work, but your custom package would need 
upgrading every time Firefox was upgraded, so the automation would be lost.

@Sven, depending on how you do your upgrades, maybe a script could 
interrogate apt-get as to what packages it intended to upgrade, before 
performing it. If 'firefox' was found, the extra action could be taken. 
So you'd write a wrapper around 'apt-get'.
-- 
John

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Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-03-28 19:40 +0200
  Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package via apt/aptitude Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-03-28 20:20 +0200
    Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package  via apt/aptitude <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-28 20:50 +0200
      Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package  via apt/aptitude "John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-03-29 01:10 +0200
      Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package  via apt/aptitude "John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-03-29 01:10 +0200
    Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package  via apt/aptitude Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-03-29 02:20 +0200
      Re: How to execute user's scripts when upgrading a certain package  via apt/aptitude "John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-03-30 04:10 +0200

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