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Re: kill, kill, kill...



On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote:
> 
> How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval 
> script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do 
> with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ???
> 
> dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it.
> 

My usual tactic is to look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.postrm and see if I
can fix it, if not I add an 'exit 0' just before it dies.  Just make sure to do
by hand what it fails to do.


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