Mike Fogel wrote: > hello all debian-devel, > > This seems like a very basic issue, but I've searched through the > mailing lists and web and haven't found any help. > > I'm trying to create a basic set of custom packages which will hold some > of our software, complied and customized as we like it for our machines. > We like to put our custom build software in /opt. Everything is > working fine, I have basic postinst and prerm scripts working well. > > However, I can't seem to figure out how to resolve this error: > > $ dpkg -i custom-package.deb > ... installation goes perfectly .... > $ dpkg -P custom-package > ... removal goes perfectly until this error/warning.... > dpkg - warning: while removing custom-package, unable to remove > directory `/opt': Device or resource busy - directory may be a mount > point ? > > Well, yeah, /opt is a mount point, and it would definitely be a good > thing if it wasn't removed. But how can I tell dpkg that I don't want > it to try to remove /opt?? > > Thanks much!!! > > Mike > > > > Hello Mike, This question is really more appropriate for debian-user. However, the message you see from dpkg is just that, a warning. Whenever a Debian package is removed and there are no packages left with files in a particular directory, dpkg tries to remove the directory. Of course, it doesn't do an rm -rf (thankfully), so directories that are still populated can't be removed. You see this, for example when removing a kernel-image package after you have added your own modules that are not part of a package under the control of dpkg. Anyhow, the warning is relatively harmless and can be safely ignored. (I hope that all of this is correct. If I messed somethig up, someone please let me know.) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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