On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > 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.
Thank you for the suggestion. (Thanks to drm and clepple, too, as I needed to learn that stuff, too) PreRmScript is closer to what I had in mind, but didn't quite know what to ask for. It did have me tearing my hair, muttering, and cursing for a couple hours tonight because I had an error in the script and couldn't remove the package until I found the script in /sw/var/... > > -- > Martin > Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] climbing the gnucash dependency tree. slowly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
