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

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:

> * 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:
>> > 
>> > 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)

That is what I did.

> 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?

I did mess around with the puppet configuration and did want to go back
to a clean state (for puppet, not for puppetmaster).  So I did remove
both packages, purged the puppet package and then reinstalled them.  But
surprisingly this did also remove the CA puppetmaster created.

Regards,
Ansgar