[nzlug] Removing legacy broken package

[Daniel Pittman]

James Paterson <jamespaterson at ihug.co.nz> writes:

> Saturday I tested my new 5gig cap by upgrading in 3 steps from Breezy
> to Gutsy av speed 1.6 mega bits/sec but sometimes much quicker.
> Everything works well except I have a broken legacy package
> libooc-vo-dev I seem to have exhausted the ubuntu install forum on
> ways to remove this.  The problem is that a pre removal script
> libooc-vo-dev.prerm refers to a file ooc2-config that is non-existent.
> This prevents removal by synaptic or by various forcing commands.
>
> this is the content of libooc-vo-dev.prerm:
> .....
> #!/bin/sh
>
> set -e
>
> case "$1" in
> remove)
> oo2c-config -r libooc-vo-dev

You should be safe adding '|| true' to the end of that line.

[...]

> I have also tried creating an empty ooc2-config file without success.

If you marked it executable it /should/ have worked. 

> I have thought of removing the reference to ooc2-config in the
> pre removal script but not till I have the install disks on hand which
> I have ordered in case I have to use a windows type solution.

Actually, in most cases it is safe enough to do: editing the script
means that whatever action you disable will not take place, but if you
don't actually care...

So, yeah, in this case go for it.

        Daniel