"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/22/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm: >> > >> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo >> >> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and >> therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty. >> >> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo || true >> >> or maybe just >> >> rmdir /usr/local/lib/foo 2>/dev/null || true > > Shouldn't logic like that be in one central place (dpkg or a library) > and not spread over dozens of packages?
A central library would be nice. But we currently don't have one, and Policy 9.1.2 describes how to handle /usr/local. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
