[wpkg-users] How does check work with upgrades please

Rainer Meier r.meier at wpkg.org
Wed Oct 7 20:34:34 CEST 2009


Hi Simon,

simplesi wrote:
> wpkg sees the revision increase and jumps straight to the upgrade commands
> (just ignores the check statement and assumes the upgrade is needed due to
> the revision increase)

Yes.


> On completion of the upgrade commands(and assuming no errors reported) -
> wpkg runs the check command and if check=true then assumes package is
> installed correctly.
> Yes?

Yes, correct.

Well in reality WPKG needs to support some more special cases. For example
required reboot where the checks might be true only after reboot.

But yes, the process you described above is the usual case which applies to 9x%
of package upgrades.

br,
Rainer



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