preinst is in sysv-rc 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.
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 | #! /bin/sh
# preinst script for sysv-rc
set -e
# summary of how this script can be called:
# * <new-preinst> `install'
# * <new-preinst> `install' <old-version>
# * <new-preinst> `upgrade' <old-version>
# * <old-preinst> `abort-upgrade' <new-version>
case "$1" in
upgrade)
# Remove the recorded update-rc.d
rm -f /var/lib/update-rc.d/*
;;
install)
# Ubuntu does not use this by default
touch /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering
;;
abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 0
;;
esac
exit 0
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