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

[Micah Anderson]

* Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> [2009-07-10 18:57-0400]:
> 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)

For a minute there, due to the quoting, I thought I had written that and
I was really stumped what I meant. Then I went and read the bug from the
top and I see that it wasn't me who wrote that, but Ansgar who did.

I just tried a few different things, and I cannot find a way to do this,
except for the method that you described (remove both, then explicitly
purging the puppet package). I'm not sure what the point of doing that
is though. 

Ansgar, could you describe what functionality you are trying to achieve?

micah
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