preinst is in zoneminder 1.26.5-1ubuntu3.
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 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
abort=false
if [ -L /usr/share/zoneminder/events ]; then
l=$(readlink /usr/share/zoneminder/events)
if [ "$l" != "/var/cache/zoneminder/events" ]; then
abort=true
fi
fi
if [ -L /usr/share/zoneminder/images ]; then
l=$(readlink /usr/share/zoneminder/images )
if [ "$l" != "/var/cache/zoneminder/images" ]; then
abort=true
fi
fi
if [ "$abort" = "true" ]; then
cat >&2 << EOF
Aborting installation of zoneminder due to non-default symlinks in
/usr/share/zoneminder for the images and/or events directory, which could
result in loss of data. Please move your data in each of these directories to
/var/cache/zoneminder before installing zoneminder from the package.
EOF
exit 1
fi
exit 0
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