Bug#264241: Some corrections regardings statements in this bug

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 13.08.04 Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de) wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:07:03PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi Adrian,

> > Maybe I'm dumb. If you do the experiment: Install tetex-base, -bin,
> > -extra and then purge tetex-extra he'll call mktexlsr. Same
> > happens on remove.
> 
> If you purge an installed package, it's first removed and then purged.
> 
I guess that was my failure.

> mktexlsr is called during the remove phase, but not during the
> purge phase.
> Look at the following (with "set -x" in the postrm script):
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> # dpkg --purge tetex-extra
> (Reading database ... 136930 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing tetex-extra ...
> + PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
> + TETEXDIR=
> + TEXMF=
> + TEXCONFIG=/usr/bin/texconfig
> + BLUESKY_UCF=config.ams config.cm config.amz config.cmz
<snip>
> + command mktexlsr
> + mktexlsr
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... 
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Done.
> + '[' xpurge = xremove ']'
> 
And this is the point, where he starts purging, right?

Thanks for clarification. Ryan, is that still an serious bug?

Regards,
  Hilmar
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