On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 19:09:11 +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > tags 605565 + help > thanks > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:53:55AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > I'm sorry to report this, but gnustep-base-runtime 1.20.1-5 fails to > > > upgrade on one of my machines due to a not running gdomap. > > > > Two machines actually. > > Yes, the prerm script is being run before the fixed initscript is > replaced, so without --oknodo it fails if the daemon is not running... > > Any idea what's the right approach to fix this problem? > > The only thing that comes to my mind right now is to replace (temporarily) > dh_installinit's standard snippet in the prerm, ignoring errors -- which > looks utterly wrong to me for obvious reasons. > If that's an option for this daemon, you could use the -R option to dh_installinit. Or, in the new prerm, if the old version is one that doesn't have --oknodo in its init script, stop the daemon manually instead of through the init script and debhelper's standard snippet.
Cheers, Julien
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