preinst is in boinc-client 7.9.3+dfsg-5.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 | #!/bin/sh
# preinst script for boinc-client
set -e
BOINC_DIR=/var/lib/boinc-client
CONF_DIR=/etc/boinc-client
# Remove a no-longer used conffile.
# from http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling
rm_conffile()
{
CONFFILE="$CONF_DIR/$1"
SYMLINK="$BOINC_DIR/$1"
if [ -e "$CONFFILE" ]; then
cur_md5sum="`md5sum \"$CONFFILE\" | sed -e \"s/ .*//\"`"
old_md5sum="`dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' boinc-client | sed -n -e \"\\\\' $CONFFILE's/.* //p\"`"
if [ "$cur_md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
else
echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
rm -f "$CONFFILE"
fi
fi
if [ -L "$SYMLINK" ]; then
rm -f "$SYMLINK"
fi
}
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "5.4.11-5"; then
rm_conffile log_flags.xml
fi
;;
abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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