On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > You don't need transition packges, look into the package-disappearing > trick from dpkg. In other words, replace all files of a package and dpkg considers that it has 'disappeared', I believe? > > I've seen recently a package > > that removed itself in the postinst. Can someone give ma a pointer which > > package that was? > > I package can't remove itself in its postinst, and one does that would be > a grave bug. It didn't remove itself in its postinst. It scheduled a background process to run as soon as the dpkg lock was removed, and that process did a purge on the package. I don't recall which package it was, though. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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