preinst is in cl-htmlgen 1.2.42+cvs.2010.02.08-dfsg-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.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | #!/bin/bash
set -e
pkg=htmlgen
dir=/usr/share/common-lisp/source/$pkg
case "$1" in
install|upgrade|abort-upgrade)
# Remove any old symlinks
test -h $dir && rm $dir
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument '$1'" >&2
;;
esac
exit 0
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