preinst is in r-recommended 3.2.3-4.
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 | #! /bin/sh
#
# r-recommended.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-recommended && rm -rf /usr/share/doc/r-recommended
;;
abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 0
;;
esac
exit 0
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