prerm is in gpm 1.20.4-4.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | #! /bin/sh
set -e
stop_gpm ()
{
# Try several methods of stopping the daemon.
# The init.d script had problems in earlier revisions.
invoke-rc.d gpm stop ||
gpm -k ||
# Try stopping gpm via the executable and via the PID file.
# The PID filename changed between 1.14 and 1.16, so we try both.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/gpm ||
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/gpmpid ||
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/gpm.pid ||
# If all of the above fails, assume gpm was already stopped.
true
}
if [ "$1" != "upgrade" ]; then
# Note, we do /NOT/ stop gpm on upgrade, as it may be repeating to X..
# However we do want to stop it if the upgrade fails.
stop_gpm
fi
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