Re: Problem with deleting firefox while nspluginwrapper is installed

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> Hmm,
>
> there is now a problem when I delete the firefox package, while this package
> is installed:
>
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/lib/firefox/plugins'
> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/lib/firefox'
> pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package `firefox-2.0.0.3nb1'
> (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?)
>
> # ll /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/plugins
> total 58
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Apr 10 20:54 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   1536 Apr 10 20:54 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  54076 Apr  1 20:21 npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>
> This file will be removed when I delete the nspluginwrapper too, but then
> the plugins and the firefox directories remains.

        pkgsrc needs some general way to specify 'this script gets run
        when any package which provides "fu" is installed or uninstalled'
        to handle this and related issues

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