Subject: Re: DEINSTALL scripts for daemon packages
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/24/2001 16:19:37
On Thu, 24 May 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> By putting in in DEINSTALL you lose the ability to have
> 'check to see if it would be OK to remove this package'
> functionality.
Right. s/DEINSTALL/REQ/ (do we still support that?).
From pkg_delete(8):
If the package contains a require file (see pkg_create(1)), then this is
executed first as
require <pkg-name> DEINSTALL
(where pkg-name is the name of the package in question and DEINSTALL is a
keyword denoting that this is a deinstallation) to see whether or not de-
installation should continue. A non-zero exit status means no, unless
the -f option is specified.
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>