Re: how to force removal of a package with a buggy postrm script?

[Tim Olsen <tolsen718@gmail.com>]

cool.  that worked (after chmod'ing it to 755).

thanks,
Tim

On 8/2/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:13:37PM -0400, Tim Olsen wrote:
> > zope-externaleditor has a bug (#298862) in its postrm script which
> > prevents  uninstallation without the file /etc/init.d/zope being
> > present
> >
> > Is there any to ignore the output of the postrm script and force the
> > uninstallation?
> >
> 
> If you mean that you don't have /etc/initd./zope and you need to
> uninstall, then simply executing `touch /etc/init.d/zope` should be
> enough to get you past the removal step.  After it is gone, you can
> remove the empty file.
> 
> -Roberto
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> Roberto C. Sanchez
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> 
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