Hello,
Did you purge slocate or just unistall it? (dpkg -s locate | grep
Status)
I always purge after upgrade from lenny to squeeze ;-)
Anyway, I think you got bitten by the fact that slocate used
dpkg-divert on a dpkg conffile. This is known to break. I guess
something like this happened:
#1 slocate installed, diverts /etc/cron.daily/find.
#2 locate split off from findutils. On the upgrade
/etc/cron.daily/find was deleted.
#3 slocate uninstalled, reinstating /etc/cron.daily/find
I agree, I think I had upgraded and remove (purge) slocate after upgrade
to squeeze (I never keep old package because I try older computer to be
as the same as the new). Maybe the bug is here.
This is not easily fixable, and I do not think it makes sense to so. -
Not easy to fix now an old bug from past dist-upgrade, and the bug is
not very serious !
Slocate was removed 2009, splitting off locate from findutils was done
even earlier, in 2007, Debian 5.0 (lenny) already had the change.
To clean up, make sure
#1 you have purged slocate (dpkg --purge slocate),
#2 that the diversion of the conffile is properly removed (Check with
dpkg-divert --list /etc/cron.daily/find) and
#3 after that is true delete /etc/cron.daily/find.
It's what I have done with cfengine. I just add your test on dpkg-divert
before remove.
/usr/bin/dpkg-divert --list /etc/cron.daily/find | wc -l | grep -q ^0
&& /bin/rm -f /etc/cron.daily/find
Maybe in the post-install script ? I do not known if it's a good place
to hack these ?
if [ -e /etc/cron.daily/find ]
then
/usr/bin/dpkg-divert --list /etc/cron.daily/find | wc -l | grep -q ^0 &&
/bin/rm -f /etc/cron.daily/find
fi
Thanks for all
gaby
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