This file is indexed.

prerm is in dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.

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.

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#!/bin/sh
# This script can be called in the following ways:
#
# Before the package is removed:
#      <prerm> remove
#
# Before an upgrade:
#      <old-prerm> upgrade <new-version>
# if that fails:
#      <new-prerm> failed-upgrade <old-version>
#
#
# Before package is deconfigured while dependency is replaced due to conflict:
#      <prerm> deconfigure in-favour <new-package> <version>
#              removing <old-package> <version>
#
# Before the package is replaced due to conflict:
#      <prerm> remove in-favour <new-package> <version>

set -e

ensure_no_triggers_noawait()
{
    admindir=${DPKG_ADMINDIR:-/var/lib/dpkg}
    pkgadmindir=$admindir/info

    trig_noawait=$(find "$pkgadmindir" -name "*.triggers" -type f | \
                   xargs -r grep -El "^(interest|activate)-(no)?await" | \
		   sed -e 's,^.*/\([^/.:]\+\)[^/]\+$,\1,')

    # Abort if we cannot possibly downgrade
    if [ -n "$trig_noawait" ]; then
        cat <<- MSG
	dpkg: error: You have packages using the "interest-noawait" and/or
	"activate-noawait" trigger directives but the dpkg version that
	you're trying to downgrade to doesn't support them. Aborting
	downgrade.

	List of affected packages:

	$trig_noawait
	MSG
        exit 1
    fi

    bad_triggers_files=$(find "$admindir/triggers" -type f | \
                         xargs -r grep -l "/noawait$" || true)
    if [ -n "$bad_triggers_files" ]; then
        cat <<- MSG
	dpkg: error: Some internal trigger files unexpectedly reference
	packages tagged with "/noawait" while their corresponding
	infodb files doesn't seem to contain any "interest-noawait"
	directive. Aborting the downgrade as those tags are not supported
	by the version you're trying to downgrade to.

	List of internal trigger files that are affected:

	$bad_triggers_files
	MSG
	exit 1
    fi
}

downgrade_multiarch_infodb()
{
    admindir=${DPKG_ADMINDIR:-/var/lib/dpkg}
    pkgadmindir=$admindir/info
    triggersdir=$admindir/triggers

    coinst_pkgs="`ls "$pkgadmindir" | \
        sed -n -e 's/^\([^:]\+:[^.]\+\)\..*$/\1/p' | sort -u | \
        cut -d: -f1 | uniq -d`"

    # Abort if we cannot possibly downgrade
    if [ -n "$coinst_pkgs" ]; then
        cat <<- MSG
	dpkg: error: You have more than one architecture instance for some
	installed 'Multi-Arch: same' packages, to be able to downgrade dpkg
	you will need to have only one instance installed per package.

	List of co-installed packages:

	$coinst_pkgs
	MSG
        exit 1
    fi

    bad_dep_pkgs=$(dpkg-query -f '${Package}\t${Depends} ${Recommends} ${Suggests} ${Enhances} ${Conflicts} ${Replaces} ${Breaks}\n' -W | \
        grep ":any" | cut -f1 | sort -u)
    if [ -n "$bad_dep_pkgs" ]; then
        cat <<- MSG
	dpkg: error: Some installed packages have multiarch dependencies that
	the old dpkg won't parse. You should get rid of them (or downgrade
	them to versions without those dependencies) before proceeding with
	dpkg's downgrade.

	List of affected packages:

	$bad_dep_pkgs
	MSG
        exit 1
    fi

    dep_fields='Depends|Recommends|Suggests|Enhances|Conflicts|Replaces|Breaks'
    if grep -qE "^($dep_fields):.*:any" $admindir/available; then
	cat <<- MSG
	dpkg: error: Some available packages have multiarch dependencies that
	the old dpkg won't parse. You should clear this file before proceeding
	with dpkg's downgrade, with:

	  # dpkg --clear-avail
	MSG
	exit 1
    fi

    file_triggers_pkgs="`sed -n -e 's/^[^ ]\+ \([^:]\+\):[^.]\+$/\1/p' \
        $triggersdir/File| sort -u`"

    if [ -n "$file_triggers_pkgs" ]; then
	cat <<-MSG
	dpkg: error: The triggers database contains arch-qualified package
	names that the old dpkg won't parse. You should get rid of them (or
	downgrade them to a non Multi-Arch: same version) before proceeding
	with dpkg's downgrade.

	List of affected packages:

	$file_triggers_pkgs
	MSG
	exit 1
    fi

    echo "Downgrading the multiarch dpkg control files database ..."
    ls $pkgadmindir | grep : | while read oldfile; do
        # We first do a round of hardlinks to the new names, so that the db
        # will never be unusable for either of the dpkg versions.
        newfile=$(echo $oldfile | sed -e 's/:[^.]\+//')
        ln -f "$pkgadmindir/$oldfile" "$pkgadmindir/$newfile"
    done
}

case "$1" in
    upgrade)
        # Allow the downgrade only if no package is using the
	# (interest|activate)-noawait trigger directives
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 1.16.1; then
            ensure_no_triggers_noawait
        fi
        # Downgrade the multiarch db to a “monoarch” db layout
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 1.16.2; then
            downgrade_multiarch_infodb
        fi
        ;;

    remove|failed-upgrade|deconfigure)
        ;;

    *)
        echo "$0 called with unknown argument '$1'" 1>&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac


exit 0