On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster 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
So you're suggesting that it's better to fail silently instead of failing loudly? Don Armstrong -- "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu