Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data under /var/lib/dosemu)

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 16-Jul-03, 04:30 (CDT), Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: 
> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> Remember that we're talking about dosemu's postrm removing
> /var/lib/dosemu...

No, we're talking about dosemu's postrm removing user data that is
trivially detected and saved. Dpkg --purge is supposed to remove the
package, not my stuff.

Why is it so hard to replace 'rm -rf /var/lib/dosemu' with

	rm /var/lib/dosemu/freedos
	rmdir /var/lib/dosemu || /bin/true


Or, slightly more complete:

	for f in /var/lib/dosemu/* ; do
		[ -L $f ] && rm $f
    done
	rmdir /var/lib/dosemu || /bin/true

This would solve the problem, and you could go back to real work rather
than this argument? (Just like I'm going to do now.)

Steve


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