On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:52:05AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts states, > while discussing the purging of a fully installed package > ("Removing and Purging", Removal+Purge of foo (Installed)), that
> there's no way that the package might end-up > in a Config files state, even if "postrm purge" fails. > It also shows a figure which is hopefully similar to the following one: > (I do hope the ascii figure will be displayed the way I wanted it to.) > Removal+Purge of foo (Installed) > +------------+FAILED +---------------------+FAILED > |prerm remove|--------->|postinst abort-remove|-------+ > +------------+ +---------------------+ | > |OK |OK | > | | | > |Files are deleted | | > V |"Installed" | > +-------------+FAILED | | > |postrm remove|-------------------+ | | > +-------------+ | | | > |OK | | | > | "Half-Installed"| | | > | | | +------------+ > |Conffiles are deleted | | | > V | | |"Failed-Config" > +------------+FAILED | | | > |postrm purge|----------------+ | | | > +------------+ | | | | > |OK | | | | > | "Config-Files"| | | | > | | | | | > |Filelist is removed | | | | > | | | | | > |"Not Installed" | | | | > V V V V V > +---------------+ +-----------------------+ > |Successful exit| |Exit with error message| > +---------------+ +-----------------------+ > It looks to me as if both the figure and policy contradicts > the statement from above about "Config-Files" state. > What am I missing? That the statement referred to a bug in the dpkg implementation, which prevented dpkg from doing a proper error-unwind when dpkg --purge is called for a package that is in "Installed" state without first calling dpkg --remove. This bug has been fixed in newer versions of dpkg, thanks in part to Marga's work on documenting dpkg behavior. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
