Re: --purge when package already gone ?

From: Joey Hess (joeyh_at_debian.org)
Date: 08/08/03

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    Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:45:40 -0400
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    Christophe Courtois wrote:
    > Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly
    > complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not 'clean'.
    > I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get doesn't want to.
    > Any way through the standard tools ?
    > (And how could it occur ? I installed slrn through Debian packages)
    >
    > /etc/cron.weekly/slrn:
    > /etc/cron.weekly/slrn: /usr/sbin/slrn_getdescs: No such file or directory
    > run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/slrn exited with return code 127
    >
    > tartine:/etc/cron.weekly# ll slrn
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 334 Oct 8 1998 slrn

    I'm not sure how the standard slrn cron.weekly script could do this,
    since it exits 0 silently if there is no /usr/bin/slrn.

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