On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:48:41PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: > My first apt-get upgrade that bumped postgres to 7.3 didn't auto update, > so I was futzing with a manual upgrade and it wasn't working, so since I > had a recent dump of the data and it's not a production machine (it's my > workstation) I tried using uninstalling the package (dpkg -r) and > reinstalling but it kept hanging, so I started deleting stuff manually > ... including /etc/postgres > > Now no matter what combination of options/switches I use I can't > uninstall, reinstall or upgrade postgres ... even worse, now that rev4 > of the package is in sid I can't even apt-get upgrade because it keeps > failing on postgres ... > > What do I do? How do I fix? .... I'm looking for the "just forget what > the f*$(@(# you think you have installed and why it's bad, just do what > I'm telling you" flag in apt-get/dpkg and I'm not finding it.
There's no such flag. It's a bug in the package. You may have to edit the maintainer scripts (/var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.*) to get things going. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
