preinst is in cdebconf 0.158ubuntu1.
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 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
debconfdir="/var/cache/debconf"
cdebconfdir="/var/lib/cdebconf"
if [ "$DEBCONF_USE_CDEBCONF" -a -f $debconfdir/templates.dat -a ! -f $cdebconfdir/templates.dat ]; then
mkdir -p $cdebconfdir
cp $debconfdir/config.dat $debconfdir/config.dat.bak
cp $debconfdir/passwords.dat $debconfdir/passwords.dat.bak
cp $debconfdir/templates.dat $debconfdir/templates.dat.bak
mv $debconfdir/config.dat $cdebconfdir/questions.dat
mv $debconfdir/passwords.dat $cdebconfdir/passwords.dat
mv $debconfdir/templates.dat $cdebconfdir/templates.dat
ln -s $cdebconfdir/questions.dat $debconfdir/config.dat
ln -s $cdebconfdir/passwords.dat $debconfdir/passwords.dat
ln -s $cdebconfdir/templates.dat $debconfdir/templates.dat
fi
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