On Friday 11 August 2006 10:37, you wrote: > Hi, > > Kjetil Kjernsmo [2006-08-11 8:06 +0200]: > > > dpkg -s postgresql > > > > Status: deinstall ok config-files > > Config-Version: 7.4.7-6sarge1 > > Hah, exactly what I wanted to see. :)
Gooooood! :-) > > Aha, I don't quite remember what I did, but since the only db I > > needed to preserve was the SA db, and sa-learn has a clean upgrade > > path for that, I might have deleted stuff by hand too... But you > > can probably draw your conclusions from what you see here :-) > > Yep, actually it behaves exactly as intended. ;) So, I recommend to > just do > > dpkg -P postgresql postgresql-client Ah, this could be the reason why this didn't go cleanly: I have a partition for pg, so it goes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -P postgresql postgresql-client (Reading database ... 81794 files and directories currently installed.) Removing postgresql ... Purging configuration files for postgresql ... rmdir: /var/lib/postgres: Device or resource busy /var/lib/postgres not empty so not removed. rmdir: /etc/postgresql: Directory not empty /etc/postgresql not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing postgresql, directory `/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove postgresql-client which isn't installed. I can of course remove these dirs manually, is that a good idea to do? > to get rid of the ancient stuff and then do a clean install of > postgresql-8.1 *nods* > Thank you for your report! You're welcome, and thanks for all the help! Kjetil
