On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 23:17 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > [...] > > But the OP system does not have old autofs5 package installed, > > only the config files from it, and the maintscripts. Which is > > exactly the problem.
> > I want to ensure that if old autofs5 is installed, installing
> > new autofs should pull new autofs5 TOO.
> > The only way currently I see to do it is to declare autofs
> > as DEPENDING on autofs5. This is obviously ugly, but it will
> > save from this very situation, and I don't see any other way.
> > Is there?
> # in autofs.postinst
> rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/autofs5.postrm
> (There may be a cleaner way to do this.)
if postrm=$(dpkg-query -c autofs5 postrm 2>/dev/null); then
rm -f "$postrm"
fi
Not sure about cleaner, but that's the supported dpkg interface.
And yeah, short of time travel, I also don't see any cleaner alternative to
manually hacking the old maintainer scripts.
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