On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:13:47PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a > > lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that > > should be uninstalled, but for some reason are being kept? I have not > > noticed this status before, and am curious about it. > > It means they are marked for deinstallation in the dselect database > (/var/lib/dpkg/status). "apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't pay attention to > that database; you'd need to use "apt-get dselect-upgrade" or just run > dselect for any of those to be noticed.
Not quite. mauritsvanrees:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall liba52-0.7.4 deinstall libapache-mod-php4 deinstall libedit2 deinstall libldap-2.2-7 deinstall libmysqlclient10 deinstall libnet0 deinstall libtdb1 deinstall mysql-common deinstall mysql-server deinstall zope deinstall mauritsvanrees:~# apt-get dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. These are probably packages that I have a new version for that is named differently, e.g. zope2.7. Or just some packages that I didn't feel were needed anymore. That one not upgraded package is a local one that I put on hold. It could affect zope and mysql (it's the zope-mysqlda package that I persuaded to work with zope2.7 as well), but quite likely not the others. The problem here is that these packages have been removed in the past, but not purged: their configs are still there. mauritsvanrees:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -l Gewenst=(U)Onbekend/Installeren/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Niet/geInstalleerd/Config/Uitgepakt/(F)config-mislukt/Half-geinst |/ Fout?=(geen)/Hold/Reinst nodig/X=beide (Status,Fout: hoofdlett=ernstig) ||/ Naam Versie Omschrijving +++-=====================-=====================-========================================================== rc liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-1 Library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. rc libapache-mod-php4 4.3.10-8 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (apache 1.3 rc libedit2 2.9.cvs.20040827-1 BSD editline and history libraries rc libldap-2.2-7 2.2.23-1 OpenLDAP libraries rc libmysqlclient10 3.23.56-2 LGPL-licensed client library for MySQL databases rc libnet0 1.0.2a-7 library for the construction and handling of network packe rc libtdb1 1.0.6-11 Trivial Database - shared library rc mysql-common 4.0.24-2 mysql database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf) rc mysql-server 4.0.24-2 mysql database server binaries rc zope 2.6.4-1.6 Open Source Web Application Server I don't know an official way to really purge these. Ah well, some creativity on the command line should solve it. mauritsvanrees:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs apt-get remove --purge Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package liba52-0.7.4 is not installed, so not removed Package libapache-mod-php4 is not installed, so not removed Package libedit2 is not installed, so not removed Package libldap-2.2-7 is not installed, so not removed Package libmysqlclient10 is not installed, so not removed Package libnet0 is not installed, so not removed Package libtdb1 is not installed, so not removed Package mysql-common is not installed, so not removed Package mysql-server is not installed, so not removed Package zope is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Okay, maybe not. :-( So how *do* you purge packages that are already removed? The manual way would be to just fire up dselect, hunt down those packages and press underscore to select them for purging. Is there another more automated way? -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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