Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum
> and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory.
> when i purge the package, i get:
>
> balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sugarplum
> (Reading database ... 69541 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing sugarplum ...
> dpkg - warning: while removing sugarplum, directory `/etc/sugarplum' not empty so not removed.
> Purging configuration files for sugarplum ...
See bug #59343 and those merged with it.
> and if i don't do anything about it, afterwards the /etc/sugarplum
> directory remains. what's the best way to not leave cruft behind like
> that? right now i have a little snippet of code that checks for an empty
> sugarplum directory in a postrm purge, which works, but i'm not sure it's
> how it ought to be done.
This is the best that you can do right now.
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- mdz
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