Re: Purging database packages
- To: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- Cc: msql@packages.debian.org, mysql@packages.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Purging database packages
- From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:15:16 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19980518151516.P3613@test.legislate.com>
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1781598.3104504341@jmlb2.trin.cam.ac.uk>; from Jules Bean on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 06:19:01PM +0100
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"Raul Miller" <rdm@test.legislate.com> wrote:
> > I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the data
> > should not be deleted. In a busy environment with several sysadmins,
> > you want to be able to make such decisions ahead of time.
Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can't you use chattr for this?
Sometimes.
There's no way to use chattr to say (for instance): dpkg should
never delete any postgres databases.
--
Raul
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