> On Jun 11, 2016, at 03:36, Sean Lake <odysseus9...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just tried using dpkg to remove wxmaxima-mac, and this is what it said: > > sudo dpkg --purge wxmaxima-mac > /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing wxmaxima-mac (--purge): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > Errors were encountered while processing: > wxmaxima-mac > > So, I give up. I'm going to erase the Fink install and start from scratch, > making sure to remove that directory in /Applications/ > > Could you add a configuration option to keep fink confined to its install > dir? I like the convenience of being able to uninstall by erasing /sw/. If > that's not possible, then some sort of "uninstall all of fink" command that > handles all of the package removal scripts automatically would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Sean Lake >
No, we probably won’t be doing a configuration option like that. /Applications/Fink contains just a bunch of symlinks to the real app bundle folders in /sw/Applications, to make it easier for users to run those. At best, having a dangling symlink in /Applications/Fink will prevent a package from being installed because the post install scripts won’t overwrite such a symlink. Your errors were with _real_ files in /sw: "rm: /sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/PkgInfo: No such file or directory" dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 I’m not sure what caused that, since the current pre-removal script for wxmaxima* looks like: $ cat /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/wxmaxima-mac.prerm #!/bin/sh # prerm script for package wxmaxima-mac, auto-created by fink set -e # generated from InfoDocs directive if [ -f /sw/share/info/dir ]; then /sw/sbin/install-info --infodir=/sw/share/info --remove wxmaxima.info fi exit 0 I.e., no mention of /sw/Applications/wxMaxima.app/Contents/PkgInfo. I’d have been curious to see what the contents of yours was, but I guess it’s too late now. Removing the “set -e” declaration in one of these scripts can be a way around stuck installs/removes, because the script won’t throw an error when a command fails. A “remove all of Fink” script would be “sudo rm -rf /sw /Applications/Fink”. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users