On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > 1) ocaml-md5sums may be not available when postrm scripts are invoked > > Sure, you should use it in prerm, since postrm removes it, no ? > > No, I can't, since when prerm is invoked .md5sums entries are still in > /var/lib/ocaml/md5sums/. Still this is not a problem, invoking it on > postrm only if ocaml-md5sums is available is fine since as long as it is > not available .md5sums entries are useless. As soon as it will get > re-installed the registry will be updated again. > > > It is probably not there, but why if it was not there, and some random > > packages does a : > > > > cp stuff /var/lib/ocaml/md5sums > > It was there since the error reported was "not a directory" rather than > "no such file or directory:". But as Christian reported he probably > created that file by hand.
If the directory is missing qnd qnother pqckqges does the above, stuff will be copied as md5sum which will not be a directory. This will only happen when a package ith bad dependency is installed and installs a md5sum file though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
