Re: Bug#524534: initramfs-tools: returns error when attempting to remove an already removed initrd

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

Hi,

        This problem exists because any posrtrm script is called twice
 when purging a package; first, to remove it, and second, to purge it.

        kernel-package passes along the maintainer scripts in the
 standard format proposed by Frans Pop, and the example scripts take
 care to only try to remove the initrd images  in the remove phase.

        I do not know enough of the upstram make deb-pkg to know ig the
 patches Frans had were ever accepted into the mainline kernel (since
 that would enable looking at the maintainer script arguments from
 dpkg). 

        In any case, this postinst script should probably ignore errors
 caused by trying to remove the initramfs metadata.

        manoj
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