Hi y'all:

I had the package "trousers" installed on an old machine where there is no TPM
hardware. So the package makes no sense on that machine. I wanted to
deinstall.

Funny:
Deinstalation wants to stop the tscd daemon. Demon does not run because driver
is not installed. Logically invoke-rc.d comes back with an error, saying that
daemon is not running.
Well, that's what we want, right?
But install script stops because of an error - not checking the kind of error.
Not realizing that the error counzts as a success because we DO WASNT that the
daemon does not run.
Deinstallation fails with error instead of going on.

Workaround:
svae /usr/sbin/invoke-rd.d to invoke-rc.d.org
delete all contents of invoke-rc.d and just leave "exit 0".

run dpkg -P trousers again.
trousers is deinstalled.

copy back /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.org onto /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d

All's well that ends well but is this not a bug?
Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?

All the best
Eike


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Eike Lantzsch:
>
> Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?

Yes.

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On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 12:36:36 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote:

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> All's well that ends well but is this not a bug?
> Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?

I have just installed and purged trousers on an unstable machine. No
problems with either procedure. You may want to do some more testing
yourself before considering the BTS.


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On Sunday 17 June 2012 12:36:36 Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> Hi y'all:
>
> I had the package "trousers" installed on an old machine where there is no
> TPM hardware. So the package makes no sense on that machine. I wanted to
> deinstall.
[snip]
> Deinstalation wants to stop the tcsd daemon. Daemon does not run because
> driver is not installed. Logically invoke-rc.d comes back with an error,
> saying that daemon is not running.
> Well, that's what we want, right?
> But install script stops because of an error - not checking the kind of
> error. Not realizing that the error counts as a success because we DO
> WANT that the daemon does not run.
> Deinstallation fails with error instead of going on.
[snip]
> ... is this not a bug?
Answer: Yes.
> Should i file a bug against trousers in Sid?
Answer: No! Bug #676828 was already filed and considered solved with the new
version of trousers.
Should have looked before.
Sorry for the noise.

Eike


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