preinst is in diaspora-installer 0.7.3.1+debian2ubuntu2.
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 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  | #! /bin/sh
set -e
diaspora_home=/usr/share/diaspora
# Keep it in sync with postrm
diaspora_symlinks_list="Gemfile.lock log tmp public app/assets bin/bundle vendor/bundle config/database.yml config/diaspora.yml config/oidc_key.pem"
# Fix bin symlink set by earlier versions
if test -L ${diaspora_home}/bin
then
    rm -rf ${diaspora_home}/bin
fi
# Backup the previous version
# Just keep the modified files/directories
# We need this to remove files removed upstream
backup() {
    backup_suffix=$(openssl rand -hex 4)
    backup_dir=${diaspora_home}/.backup.${backup_suffix}
    mkdir  ${backup_dir}
    mv ${diaspora_home}/* ${backup_dir}
    for i in vendor app bin config; do
      mkdir ${diaspora_home}/$i
    done
    for i in ${diaspora_symlinks_list}; do
      test -e ${backup_dir}/$i && mv ${backup_dir}/$i ${diaspora_home}/$i
    done
}
 
case "$1" in
    upgrade)
            echo "Stopping diaspora..."
            invoke-rc.d diaspora stop
            echo "Making a backup of ${diaspora_home}..."
            backup || true
        ;;
    abort-upgrade|install)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0
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