Re: [Fink-devel] tetex upgrade problems

2003-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 04:40 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > > > The problem is that the removal of files is happening in PostRemove, > > outside > > of dpkg's control. But if you can think of an alternate way to solve > > this > > prob

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex upgrade problems

2003-02-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 17:46, David R. Morrison wrote: > Sorry, I said it wrong before: the error is in the old PreRemove script, > not the PostRemove script. > > The problem is, the very first thing which dpkg does upon updating a > package is to execute the *old* prerm script. I would never hav

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex upgrade problems

2003-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Hmmm... Yeah, I could do it in tetex-texmf... It's tricky, though; I only want to make the tetex-base script fail if its an old version of tetex-base that's installed. OK, I will try some more... Thanks, Dave --- This SF.net email is spons

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex upgrade problems

2003-02-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:26, David R. Morrison wrote: > Hmmm... Yeah, I could do it in tetex-texmf... It's tricky, though; I only > want to make the tetex-base script fail if its an old version of tetex-base > that's installed. OK, I will try some more... Some suggestions on how to do this: