Oh that's great. I guess you're quoting some source online? Thanks, Alex
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Fladischer Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > Maybe i can help you with this bogus behavior of the Debian package > management: > > The error "dpkg - warning: while removing apacheds, directory `/opt' not > empty so not removed." is triggered when dpkg tries to remove a package > from a directory which is not used by any other Debian package, thus it > looks empty to dpkg, but if you've placed other software under /opt it's > not empty on the file-system layer. > > After installing you can check with "dpkg -S /opt" what packages depend > on this directory. In my case, where I was able to reproduce this error, > apacheds was the only owner of /opt inside the dpkg database. > > I'm not aware of any workaround to prevent this message as it's just > doing it's intended job. > > Regards, Michael > > Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot schrieb: > > Unfortunately, I don't think we have such a possibility. > > > > The script should not try to remove /opt. I don't know why it tries to > > remove it on your machine. > > > > I'll be looking at some doco for this. > > > > P-A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIA8iUhuoBH16pp9gRAtc7AKCZqHIn2TwgzbHNxVydYm+BB9tYVwCg0S06 > H9/wAByq1NoWcRskURQw9AY= > =Vvk5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
