Bug#784604: systemd: can't remove systemd unless it is correctly running

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.05.2015 um 13:16 schrieb Brian May:
> On Fri, 8 May 2015 at 22:26 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ok, this particular issue, as mentioned earlier, is probably solved by
>> simply using "|| true" in the dpkg trigger. I think it's safe to ignore
>> errors from the dpkg trigger.
>>
> 
> Sounds fine to me.

Can you confirm that adding that "|| true" to postinst manually fixes
your issue and allows you to uninstall systemd-sysv?

> Guessing this would have to be done for every package  from postrm, prerm
> scripts however :-(
> 

Ideally, we wouldn't allow to install systemd-sysv in the first place in
such a case by adding preinst checks which test for necessary kernel
features and abort.



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