This file is indexed.

preinst is in r-base-dev 2.14.1-1.

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.

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#! /bin/sh
#
# r-base-dev.preinst
#
# Written and GPL'ed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> 
 
set -e
 
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)
    # we want symlinks to r-base so old directories cannot exist
    test -d /usr/share/doc/r-base-dev && rm -rf /usr/share/doc/r-base-dev
    ;;
 
    abort-upgrade)
    ;;
 
    *)
        echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 0
    ;;
esac
 

 
exit 0