Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 9 Aug 2001 06:14:59 +0000 From theorb@snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net Thu Aug 09 01:14:59 2001 Return-path: Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 15Uj5u-0006mJ-00; Thu, 09 Aug 2001 01:14:59 -0500 Received: from localhost (22-99.apx-2.noc.supernet.com [64.41.22.99]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18576 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theorb by localhost with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15Uj1H-0002SF-00; Thu, 09 Aug 2001 02:10:11 -0400 From: James Mastros Subject: apt: A Post-Install-Pkgs might be useful To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.3.10 Message-Id: Sender: James Mastros Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 02:10:11 -0400 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: wishlist Hello, Jason, Randolf, Ben, et al, First off, thanks for maintaining and extending apt; it's a wonderful tool and the main reason I use debian. That being said, I have a request: A Post-Install-Pkgs, like Pre-Install-Pkgs but run after, rather then before, the packages are unpacked (and configured, probably, though for my purposes it doesn't matter). Aside from the symetry issues, I have a specific reason for this wish: to use it to have debsums generate md5s for packages that don't already have them for all files automaticly after their installation. I tried doing this with a Post-Invoke, but that doesn't give the names (or paths) of the packages that were newly-installed, and doing a complete regeneration seems quite inneficent, and additionaly makes it difficult (if not impossible) to tell what sums were generated from the freshly-installed packages, and which are stale. (BTW, I'm filing a wishlist bug on debsums about this too, so it's maintainer will probably be contacting you.) PS -- Sorry to all those who'se name I didn't list; I just pulled the last few entries off of the changelog. PSS -- The email address on this is somwhat incorrect; use james@rtweb.net instead. Thank you, -=- James Mastros -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux lilith 2.4.7-ac7 #13 Sun Aug 5 23:54:33 EDT 2001 i686 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.3-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01072 The GNU stdc++ library