> have you ever tried/managed to use dpkg-triggers in the same way? It strikes me as likely being impossible as they're run by dpkg itself, which needs to exit

> have you ever tried/managed to use dpkg-triggers in the same way? It strikes me as likely being impossible as they're run by dpkg itself, which needs to exit before the update can begin... No, I've not looked at this problem for ~6 years. APTonCD achieves some of the goals I had, so when that became popular I abandoned my attempts.