Re: the right way to uninstall /var/games
On 01 Jan 2003 12:25:50 -0800,
Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> Oohara> I maintain a game which saves its high score in /var/games .
> Oohara> It creates /var/games in its postinst to avoid dpkg -r
> Oohara> "directory not removed because it is not empty" warning.
>
> Colin> I don't think you should worry about that warning. Accept it as
> Colin> a bug in dpkg, tell anybody who complains about it that it's a
> Colin> bug in dpkg, and make your package behave in the simplest
> Colin> possible way.
>
> I agree. It is a small problem (if one at all) compared to the ones
> you already know you'd encounter trying to avoid it.
I forgot why the high score directory is created in postinst
in the first place. I want to keep the high score file when
the package is removed but not purged, so including /var/games
in .deb is wrong.
The problem on purge is still unsolved, though.
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