Hi Kike, Kike [2006-09-10 14:41 +0200]: > Martin Pitt escribió: > > Can you please describe how you managed to purge postgresql-common > > with postgresql-8.1 being still installed? Debian Policy 7.2 states > > > > 'The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or > > postrm scripts require the package to be present in order to run.' > > > > postgresql-8.1 depends on postgresql-common and thus its prerm script > > can rely on postgresql-common still being installed. > > > > Did you use --force-depends when purging postgresql-common? > > > > Thank you, > > > > Martin > > > > > I didn't use any special command, that's why I send the bug. I did it a > simple apt remove and purge. > I only tried to remove all postgresql packages that I have installed, > and some of gforge postgresql related. > While performing this removal some packages failed, that's maybe why > some packages get unistalled nor others. > It's a pitty now I don't remember exactly which one more failed.
Thanks for your answer. However, I still cannot imagine how this would have happened even in a reasonably conceivable package failure case. Without understanding the actual problem I cannot fix anything. Maybe you can try to get the same situation again and keep notes of what you did to reproduce the failure? Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
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