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Re: removal script ordering [attn: lilypond maintainer]


On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > Does setup.exe honor postremove scripts, or should
> > > /etc/postremove/postremove-lilypond.sh be changed to a preremove
> > > script?
> >
> > It probably should, as the current setup source doesn't contain the
> > string "postremove" at all. :-)
>
> Actually the code is still there, at the end of
> packagemeta::uninstall().

Heh.  So it is.  I wonder what I did to not get it in my grep...

It still doesn't make sense to me, though -- what would you want to do
after removing the package files that you couldn't do before removing
them?

Also, postremove scripts should not be shell scripts -- only batch files.
	Igor
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