Re: Problems found by piuparts

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote:
> >   Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
> >
> >     rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
> 
> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
> therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty.
> 
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo || true

So you're suggesting that it's better to fail silently instead of
failing loudly?


Don Armstrong
 
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