Re: removing dpkg packages

Florian Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we need to remove Debian Packages via cfengine. Unfortunately  this  
> doesn't work.
[..]
> Install works, uninstall doesn't. We examined this problem and it  
> seems, the remove command wasn't invoked at all. Further investigation  
> and trial and error leeds to the following workarround:

Hi Florian,

Please try to submit a patch rather than just the new code [1].  It
makes it harder to see what you've changed at quick glance, as we don't
always have a working copy of the code available.  The proposed code is
problematic, it moves Debian uninstalls in the same class with FreeBSD
and Sun, which do uninstalls one at a time, whereas RPM/Deb/Portage
queue their add/removes.

Actually, Mark just committed a patch (r597) related to a problem I
found elseware in package.c that would have caused Debian uninstalls to
not work just as you described.  I saw the problem in the code, but I'm
not running Cfengine on any Debian boxes so I didn't actually confirm
that my patch fully resolved the problem.  Could you try compiling and
running trunk and see what results you get?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff

Eric

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