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Re: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version


On Tue, 3 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:16:54PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
> >Hi All...
> >
> >Should the actual file deletion be moved to a later phase? What I mean is
> >where deletions are now performed, should files to be deleted be appended
> >to a list (of files to be deleted), and then deleted all at once?
>
> It seems like files should only be deleted after all of the postinstall
> scripts have run.

You must mean "preremove" here.  This won't help if the preremove scripts
delete files that are needed for the package executables to function.
It'll work for most packages, though.
	Igor
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