On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke wrote: > > I didn't purge though, which means that I have this now: > > dom0:~# aptitude search ~c > > c amanda-client > > c amanda-common > > c amanda-server > > > > Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without > actually purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer > version including its configuration? > > I cannot put the packages on hold since they are not installed and I > sometimes like to use aptitude purge ~c after uninstalling a lot of > packages...
I handle this with an on-board repository. This gives me the ability to do everything with aptitude, change versions or automatically update to outside repositories when something becomes available. I just drop the deb into my repository. When necessary, I make debs from tar-balls with checkinstall, which I borrowed from lenny without conflicts on etch. Here is my repository: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/freeman# cd /etc/apt/debs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt/debs# ls -al total 13128 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-24 21:52 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-08-19 15:59 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12174650 2008-07-05 13:46 amaya_wx-10.0.1-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1161354 2008-08-19 14:18 clamav_0.93.3-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 2008-08-20 12:44 notes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1238 2008-08-24 21:52 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1248 2008-08-24 21:52 Packages~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 693 2008-08-24 21:52 Packages.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13675 2008-07-05 13:50 repo-readme -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25414 2008-08-19 15:45 repository-readme.html -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 53 2008-08-20 12:10 textindex.sh -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 44 2008-08-20 12:17 zipindex.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt/debs# Here is my sources.list entry: # disk deb file:///etc/apt/debs/ / Here is textindex.sh which I run to get the text index, Packages, after dropping new deb into the repo: #!/bin/bash dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages exit I edit Packages to remove problems in package listings. eg., checkinstall could not get depends info from clamav tar-ball. This crashed aptitude. So I deleted the empty "Depends:" line from the clamav entry in Packages. Neither aptitude nor clamav crash now. Here is zipindex.sh, which I run to get the actual gzipped repository index, Packages.gz, form Packages: #!/bin/bash gzip -9c Packages > Packages.gz exit Here is my reference form making my repository: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html -- Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
