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

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> wrote:

> 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

Sorry, I have written too many Makefiles these days.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)