[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] testing for upcoming release

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 07:46:03PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:49:53AM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > 1) When installing,
> > 
> > Unpacking replacement pciutils ...
> > dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/lib/pciutils': Directory 
> > not empty
> > 
> > Since we're getting rid of that location, I guess we need to clean that up in 
> > the prerm? On my system the offending file was "pci.ids.old", I thought we 
> > already had code to get rid of .old files? Hmm, it looks like it's been 
> > changed to the /usr/share location, I'll have it clean up the old var location 
> > too, sound OK?
> 
> Thanks for testing this.  I *think* we need to do it in the 'upgrade'
> case of the preinst script rather than the prerm:

I've committed a preinst that should do what we want.  BTW, the subject
lines on the cvs mail are still broken; did you want to take a look
at that?

For anyone else watching, the pciutils upload is still blocked on
libpci2 acceptance; that should happen within the next week.