Bug 226419

Summary:	devmanual pkg_postinst doc doesn't match portage behaviour anymore
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) <coldwind>
Component:	Devmanual	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dev-portage, juantxorena
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/pkg_postinst/index.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	226505

Description Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-13 20:26:00 UTC

"Sample pkg_postinst" and "Common pkg_postinst Tasks" suggest using has_version in pkg_postinst in order to detect upgraded. This does not work anymore with >=portage-2.1.5 since it runs pkg_postinst after the old version have been removed.

Comment 1 juantxorena@gmail.com 2008-12-19 20:40:58 UTC

This doesn't seem that hard to fix, and is a blocker for portage-2.1.6.1. Do somebody need any help with this?

Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-22 22:48:58 UTC

Juan,

A patch will make this happen a lot quicker.  http://devmanual.gentoo.org/appendices/contributing/

Comment 3 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-01 20:59:48 UTC

Sending        trunk/ebuild-writing/functions/pkg_postinst/text.xml
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 136.


Let me know if I misrepresented anything in the new version.