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| author | Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> | 2012-09-09 12:13:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-09-09 14:17:20 -0400 |
| commit | a3494762925e5a42a42ce82c688f62f163ffad1b (patch) | |
| tree | 17ebd0bc0a1d852670cf139286341d2f4379b59b /doc | |
| parent | b3c00de156adf9c52da3cd0fa7c46414d5eb6982 (diff) | |
Make it possible to pass perl code to autoscript.
The shell-quoted sed code passed as parameter 4 is fragile (see Bug#665296).
Make it possible to pass a sub that operates on each line via $_ instead.
Also add a basic unit test for Dh_Lib, for now just with tests for autoscript.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PROGRAMMING | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PROGRAMMING b/doc/PROGRAMMING index bcf1c13c..e1440c91 100644 --- a/doc/PROGRAMMING +++ b/doc/PROGRAMMING @@ -191,13 +191,16 @@ isnative($package) is a native debian package. As a side effect, $dh{VERSION} is set to the version number of the package. -autoscript($package, $scriptname, $snippetname, $sedcommands) +autoscript($package, $scriptname, $snippetname, $sedcommands || $sub) Pass parameters: - binary package to be affected - script to add to - filename of snippet - - sed commands to run on the snippet. Ie, s/#PACKAGE#/$PACKAGE/ - (optional) Note: Passed to the shell inside double quotes. + - (optional) EITHER sed commands to run on the snippet. Ie, + s/#PACKAGE#/$PACKAGE/ Note: Passed to the shell inside double + quotes. + OR a perl sub to invoke with $_ set to each line of the snippet in + turn. This command automatically adds shell script snippets to a debian maintainer script (like the postinst or prerm). Note that in v6 mode and up, the snippets are added in reverse |