Le Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:21:31PM +0200, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Charles Plessy [Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:07:50 +0900]: > > > Strictly speaking, this paragraph asks about checking for programs, not > > directories. Would this desserve a wishlist bug against the Policy ? > > Why would you want to check for directories instead of programs? The way > to check if a package is removed but not purged is to check if its > executables (or other *files*) exist, not if a directory exists. The > admin may have placed some files of their own in the directory, and in > that case a removal will *not* remove the directory (because it's not > empty); if in that case you check the directory exists, later calls to > the executables will fail because the package is actually removed.
Well, in our particular case, we are talking about this : 0 0 * * * root find /var/www/emboss-explorer/output -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -atime 1 -exec rm -rf {} \; We could test some files from the pacakge as a readout of its installation status, but I am still thinking that it is more straightforward to test for the presence of the directory to be cleaned. Also, as a bonus, it will actually have a chance to do some real work after package removal. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan