Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

>      I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk
> that is marked 'purge' in dselect.  Both dselect and 'dpkg
> --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response:

> /var/lib/dpkg/info/nfsroot.prerm: /etc/init.d/bind: No such file or

Oops, right. nfsroot needs a "bind" dependancy.

Just filed a bug against the package. Thanks!
> 
>      I would appreciate instruction in the dpkg force remove command
> necessary to remove this misconfigured file.

I would like those too. In this case, dpkg should just ignore the error messages it gets from
the prerm. The way to fix this (in this case this is safe), is to do:
rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/nfsroot.prerm

before running dpkg -r nfsroot again.

Thanks,


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