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Re: dpkg hooks (was Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm")



Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Can't we do this already? The new postrm is supposed to be run if the old
> one fails for exctly this reason.. 

The problem is when you put a command you really don't want to be run (ie,
rm -rf /) in the postrm. It might run ok, but we don't want to run it. I
think some less extreme examples than mine have actually occurred.

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