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Re: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:08:32PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 3 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:16:54PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>> >Hi All...
>> >
>> >Should the actual file deletion be moved to a later phase? What I mean is
>> >where deletions are now performed, should files to be deleted be appended
>> >to a list (of files to be deleted), and then deleted all at once?
>>
>> It seems like files should only be deleted after all of the postinstall
>> scripts have run.
>
>You must mean "preremove" here.  This won't help if the preremove scripts
>delete files that are needed for the package executables to function.
>It'll work for most packages, though.

Yes.  I meant preremove.

cgf


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