On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:49:46PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > 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. a fair number of people keep /usr mounted read-only, and have apt configured to remount it read-write for package installs and read-only again as soon as its finished. the above kludge will fail on such systems. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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