Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade
Em Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:54:25 +0100
Muhammad Hussain Yusuf <muhammadyusuf@btinternet.com> escreveu:
> The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner
> and the problem is that when installing new package, and an older version is
> installed, dpkg gives an error message, and the old conffile directory,
> not being empty, does not get removed.
hm... I think that's the correct behavior, as long as it really removes
the conffile, it should not remove the directory if it is not empty...
doing an rm -rf on it can damage user-modified files... I'd not do that
[]s!
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Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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