On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo > from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt? > > What is the result?
You can't do it directly, as dpkg has locked the status file at that point. The sgmltools-lite (?) maintainer tried hacking around that by waiting for the lock to be released once, and it immediately got a justifiable grave bug; the race conditions are ugly. Don't do it. > It whould be very helpful when creating the improved harden > packages. :) I think you should consider more carefully what you're trying to achieve. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
