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diff --git a/man/deb-prerm.man b/man/deb-prerm.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a75df19 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-prerm.man @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +.\" dpkg manual page - deb-prerm(5) +.\" +.\" Copyright © 2016 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> +.\" +.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +. +.TH deb\-prerm 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" +.nh +.SH NAME +deb\-prerm \- package pre-removal maintainer script +. +.SH SYNOPSIS +prerm +. +.SH DESCRIPTION +A package can perform several pre-removal actions via maintainer +scripts, by including an executable \fIprerm\fP file in its control +archive (i.e. \fIDEBIAN/prerm\fP during package creation). +.PP +The script can be called in the following ways: +.TP +\fIprerm\fP \fBremove\fP +Before the package is removed. +.TP +\fIold-prerm\fP \fBupgrade\fP \fInew-version\fP +Before an upgrade. +.TP +\fInew-prerm\fP \fBfailed-upgrade\fP \fIold-version new-version\fP +If the above \fBupgrade\fP fails. +.TP +\fIprerm\fP \fBdeconfigure in-favour\fP \fInew-package new-version\fP +.TQ + [ \fBremoving\fP \fIold-package old-version\fP ] +Before package is deconfigured while dependency is replaced due to conflict. +.TP +\fIprerm\fP \fBremove in-favour\fP \fInew-package new-version\fP +Before the package is replaced due to conflict. +. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR dpkg (1). |