PACKAGES remove

[Thilo Uttendorfer]

Hello,

I have a problem concerning "PACKAGES remove" in package_config files. I want 
some packages to be removed, lets say p1, p2 and p3. This works as expected 
as long as the mirror knows about all these packages. But if the mirror does 
not include one of these packages (which makes sense because I don't want to 
install them), I get the error "E: Couldn't find package p1". The problem is, 
that apt-get in this case won't uninstall p2 or p3 either, even if the mirror 
knows about these packages. I have this problem especially on CD-installs 
where you usually don't have a complete mirror.

My workaround for now is to add a "aptitude-remove"-command to 
install_packages because aptitude does not stop if one of the packages does 
not exist. Look at the attached patch. It's a dpatch, but you can easily 
extract the "regular" patch.

Anyone else have this problem and maybe a smarter solution?



Best regards,

-- 
Thilo Uttendorfer
Linux Information Systems AG
Putzbrunner Str. 71, 81739 München

Fon: +49 89 993412-11, Fax: +49 89 993412-99
t.uttendorfer at linux-ag.com, http://www.linux-ag.com
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