Bug#392518: tex-common: fails to uninstall if /usr/local is mounted read-only

[Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006, Frank Küster wrote:

> Apropos error checking.  Folks, do you think
> 
> -    rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
> +    -rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/dev/null
> 
> would be okay?  This will just drop and ignore all errors, but I can't
> imagine any but "can't do that", and in this case we can't do anything
> but just not do it.

   It's usually done this way:

     rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/dev/null || true

   But it's IMHO OK to silently ignore removal errors, yes.

-- 
Sam.