On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 23:17 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > [...] > > But the OP system does not have old autofs5 package installed, > > only the config files from it, and the maintscripts. Which is > > exactly the problem. > > I want to ensure that if old autofs5 is installed, installing > > new autofs should pull new autofs5 TOO. > > The only way currently I see to do it is to declare autofs > > as DEPENDING on autofs5. This is obviously ugly, but it will > > save from this very situation, and I don't see any other way. > > Is there? > # in autofs.postinst > rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/autofs5.postrm > (There may be a cleaner way to do this.) if postrm=$(dpkg-query -c autofs5 postrm 2>/dev/null); then rm -f "$postrm" fi Not sure about cleaner, but that's the supported dpkg interface. And yeah, short of time travel, I also don't see any cleaner alternative to manually hacking the old maintainer scripts. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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