[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Recovering from bad package install

[From: Simon Budig]

Neil Jerram (neil at ossau.uklinux.net) wrote:
> If I accidentally try to install a package with a preinst or postrm
> script, it fails as documented at
> http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html,
> with an error message about not being able to chroot to
> /var/lib/install.
> 
> My question is: having done this, how can I recover back to a sane
> state, where I can fix the package and then try installing it again?
> Nothing that I can think of works, as shown by the transcript appended
> below.

For me it helped to remove the preinst and postrm scripts manuall.

Bye,
        Simon
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