Re: [RFD]: Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
On 2 Feb 2000, Brian May wrote:
> dpkg --purge dhcpd-beta
>
> of course!
>
> WRONG! When purging dhcpd-beta, it automatically deletes
> /var/lib/dhcpd, hence breaking the copy og dhcpd that was previously
> installed.
Ok, lets apply this to apache again.
What if another pkg installs files into /var/{log,lib}/apache, or,
/etc/apache? Apache's postinst does an rm -rf on those dirs, and this will
wipe out the files owned by the other pkg. libapache-mod-jserv stored data
into /etc/apache, however, this pkg has since be renamed to jserv, and stores
its config in /etc/jserv. But there could be other cases of this as well.
Would this be a bug on apache? Or a bug on policy? This needs to be
clarified.
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