Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:39:09PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:03:27AM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first
> > time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to
> > correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have
> > to not remove the base package (which is guaranteed by its essential
> > flag)... this bug deserves no more to be open.
>
> I think we are closing bugs for the sake of it here. Any reason
> why the suggestion can't be implemented? (ie make base-files.postinst
> truncate base.list). OK it's not a very nice solution but there isn't
> a better one. I personally have nuked the base package and lost all
> my devices this way.
Sorry to step in, but there might be a better solution to the
problem. I think you can preserve files of an old package which
otherwise wold be removed.
The possible solution I see to this case is using dpkg-divert. If
base is still installed you should dpkg-divert every file in /dev
that used to be in that package to some other place. Example:
dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda
Then if you remove base, the devices would not get removed.
There however might be many files to divert and I don't know if
somebody really wants to do this. And as already mentioned this
package is quite old so only few people would using it. I won't
reopen this bug but I forward this information to the BTS.
Just my 2 cent.
Ingo
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