[postgis-devel] Upgrade paths (again)

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Sun Aug 14 03:50:13 PDT 2022


Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> writes:

> The package managers I know of have the ability to run a script before
> or after doing "things". Don't knot the details but they do things
> like setting symlinks or starting interactive configuration sessions.
>
> They may as well run that script.

Yes, scripts can be run, but I view using that facility as an negative,
rather than just producing the right bits at package build time.

And, at least in pkgsrc, running a de-installation script won't have
available files (or any other information) from the new package.

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