On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 02:12:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Finishing unpacking isn't exactly a dpkg abort, though. Maybe > `This means the package must be functional even before it has been > configured when upgrading and after any dpkg abort.' ?
Unfortunately, there are some failure modes we don't have enough control over. For example, there's no way to rename several files atomically [so that either all of them get renamed or none of them]. -- Raul
