Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread joost witteveen
> I wonder why the nfsroot.prerm package would want to stop named. It isn't > re-started at some point, so if you would remove the nfsroot package you > would end up with a not-running named, which is very undesired behaviour > IMO. Oops, there you found the real problem. Sorry, I'm not very conce

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread joost witteveen
> Thanks a lot. This worked perfectly. I assume from your wording > "(in this case this is safe)" that this would not be a safe procedure > in general. Is this correct? Well, my personal opinion is that this is nearly always safe, and that dpkg really should have an option that tells it to

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Thanks a lot. This worked perfectly. I assume from your wording "(in this case this is safe)" that this would not be a safe procedure in general. Is this correct? Bob On Wed, 5 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) wrote: > The way to fix this (in this case this is safe), is to do

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk > > > that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg > > > --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk > > that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg > > --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response: > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/nfsroot.prerm: /etc/i

Re: dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-05 Thread joost witteveen
> I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk > that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg > --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/nfsroot.prerm: /etc/init.d/bind: No such file or Oops, right. nfsroot need

dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response: Removing nfsroot ... I will not do so, (as you may have some config stuff in there left), but you prob