On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:19:19AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote: > > > > How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval > > script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do > > with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ??? > > > > dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it. > > > My usual tactic is to look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.postrm and > see if I can fix it, if not I add an 'exit 0' just before it dies. > Just make sure to do by hand what it fails to do.
I recommend the same thing in my "Debian reference" on DDP web page. May be FAQ should be updated to include it too. I think problem is Debian "testing" is not released but too stable. So people tends to dive in without knowing how to deal with broken packages. After all it is testing, we need to know how to handle broken package :) Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D . See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ Project at: http://qref.sf.net . I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
