Re: [TCLUG:20305] Package formats (was: Re: suidperl)

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:42:00AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> "Gabe Turner (officer)" wrote:
> > 
> > I certainly never said Debian's packages system is bad.  In fact, I find it
> > quite handy and efficient.  I was just saying that Slackware's packaging
> > system isn't as bad as everyone seems to think (IMHO).  I've never had a
> 
> Okay, so I installed Zipslack 7.1 on my craptop. Then wanted to slim it
> down.
> 
> I uninstalled the glibc devel package. Next reboot, ooops I can't log
> in. login among other things is complaining about not finding libcrypt.
> Seems it got nuked. Well, so I booted single user. Nope, still trying to
> use login. So, loadlin mumblemumble init=/bin/sh, there we go.
> Reinstalled the glibc runtime package manually. Ta da, works again...

Yeah, those pesky encrypted passwords.  Whomever thought those up should be
shot! ;)

> 
> Anyway, later I notice sendmail is running even though I uninstalled it.
> Turns out it didn't delete /mumblebin/sendmail since its in the tgz as
> sendmail.new, and is mv'd over any existing version by the install
> script. Slackware doesn't seem to have any *un*install scripts...

How did you uninstall it?  The removepkg command would have been the proper
way.  Also, you'll prolly want to comment out the sendmail part of the
initscript that starts it (I think it's rc.M, or something). It could be
that they don't have an uninstall script for sendmail.  You may want to
crack open the package and take a peek.  If it's simple enough, write a
little uninstall script and submit it to them.

> 
> Slackware is not a distribution for the weak.

Truely not... Though it really lets you get your hand dirty :)

Gabe
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