[BIGTOP-84] Package removal fails in case alternatives are deleted or damaged

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: debian, rpm
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 07/Sep/11 19:44
• Updated: 26/Jun/12 15:57
• Resolved: 14/Sep/11 22:22

Description

Quite a few of our packages use alternatives --remove mta in there pre-unistall steps. This works fine for as long as the alternative is there and is not damaged, but prevents package removal in any other case:

1. rpm -e hadoop-hive
   ....
   error: %preun(hadoop-hive-0.7.1+42.4-2.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2