On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:34:47AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Definitely..:)
> I'm afraid that my NMU, intended for simple l10n stuff, just revealed > that problem. > > I believe you MUST be able to remove a package more than once, > > idempotently (policy 6.2), but currently, you cannot. Hence I think > > the bug is serious. (Apologies if I'm wrong about that.) > > For example, dpkg can't always remove the package if brokenly installed. > Sounds like an RC issue to me, yes. > > Possible solutions: > > 1. in postrm, check if dir exists before cd; or > I have another solution to propose: *no* cd in the directory: > why not have: > case "$1" in > remove) > echo -n "Removing hash symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs ..." > find /etc/ssl/certs -type l -print | while read h > do > test -f $h || rm -f $h > done > echo done. > ;; > Minimal (untested) change, but that should make it, no? > Another brutal solution is of course testing the existence of the > directory before running the find on it Yes, this change appears to be sufficient to solve the current problem. You'll want to quote the "$h", btw. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
