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Re: rm -rf /usr/somedir in maintainer scripts?



"Andrej N. Gritsenko" <andrej@rep.kiev.ua> writes:
>     Hello!
>
> I have written on Sunday, 30 September, at  2:12:
>>Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56:
>>>"Andrej N. Gritsenko" <andrej@rep.kiev.ua> writes:
>>>> I've solved that in the
>>>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was
>>>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth.
>
>>>Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly manually
>>>placing some file in /usr/include/libfm is pretty ugly, but I would
>>>still certainly not expect that upgrading the libfm package would remove
>>>it.
>
>>>Is that really good practice? Can packages "own" a directory, so that
>>>anything that the local admin puts there may be removed automatically?
>
>>    Probably I'm wrong in that. Do you think preinst script should fail
>>instead if target-to-replace directory is not empty?
>
> And that will not work certainly. If package is being upgraded then old
> files will be still in place so rmdir will fail in any case.
>
> Could you propose any better way to do then? Postinst script which does
> rmdir and makes symlink instead of not-installed from package? Isn't it
> dirty somehow?

No, I'm afraid I don't have any good suggestion for the problem at hand.
I'm writing this mostly as a user who gets really concerned when he reads
rm -rf.


Sorry...

   -Nikolaus

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