On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
So, then we dpkg developers should add this ability. Some of the code already exists to do this, it'll be a variation of --command-pipe.
