David Reiser wrote: > ktoblzcheck, a library to verify German bank number/account number > pairs, comes with the most recent data set available from the German > banking system. > > Recent versions of ktoblzcheck also have a perl script (well, 2 > actually, but one calls the other) that can download newer versions > of the dataset over the net and update the installed version. The > problem is that the script leaves behind the backup of the original > data and the unmodified version of the downloaded update data. So, if > one were to remove ktoblzcheck with fink after doing an update, fink > notifies the user that /sw/share/ktoblzcheck can't be removed because > it isn't empty. [] > Is there an easy way to avoid installing individual built files? I'm > not too keen on trying to patch configure.in or some makefiles.
I'll answer a different question from what clepple and drm did: I understand you worry about files created by the user *after* the installation. There are many packages that are doing this. For example, xemacs has its own package manager for add-on packages. If you run this, there will be files in /sw/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/ that fink has never heard about, and they will not be removed when you remove the Fink xemacs packages. Many other packages have user-modifiable configuration files that live inside /sw/, and there is even a mechanism that lets fink (via dpkg) not remove them when the package is removed. Other packages create their runtime files inside /sw/var/ where they are usually left behind when the package is removed. In short, if you are concerned about runtime products left behind and not controlled by the package manager, I would suggest not to worry. If you really want to remove these files when the ktoblzcheck package is removed, you can do it in a PreRmScript. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
