[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#525852: Bug#525852: postrm will remove files owned by puppetmaster on purge

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:44:00PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:
> 
> > * Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> [2009-04-27 10:33-0400]:
> > Its impossible to remove the puppet package, without also removing the
> > puppetmaster package. Puppetmaster depends heavily on the libraries that
> > are included in the puppet package.
> 
> Right, but it is possible to purge puppet and only remove (not purge)
> the puppetmaster package.  In this case only the files belonging to
> puppet should be removed.

Really? How do you purge the puppet package but not purge the puppetmaster
package (I guess apart from removing them both and then explicitly purging the
puppet package)
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