On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 06:49:12PM -0500, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote: > > > Selective use of the "cruft" program will help you clean up an existing > > system. It compares the list of normal files and conffiles for installed > > packages against the file system and reports extras--cruft. > > The concept fits the bill. :) Unfortunately, I tried it out and there > were too many files listed. (~13k). I don't know enough about a healthy > GNU/Linux environment to pass judgment on virtually any of them without > doing research on each. (I did notice some very important files that I > wouldn't want to delete, and that were marked as "unexplained", a > category that marked over 99.9% of the packages.) > > Thanks for the tip though. :) > -Drew >
There is a script, courtesy of Mike Bird, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00534.html I am not qualified to critique it but I have used it a little. One followup suggest a patch. Here is the list of obsolete conffiles it gave me. Clear false psitives right off are the clamav-freshclam conffile in logrotate and the gnome-power-manager autostart entry. So extensive validation and backups required: | 6.0 clamav-freshclam 0.96.5+dfsg-1~volatile1 /etc/logrotate.d/clamav-freshclam | 6.0 dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug | 6.0 dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf | 6.0 dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug | 6.0 dhcp3-client 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes | 6.0 dhcp3-server 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server | 6.0 dhcp3-server 4.1.1-P1-9 /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf | 6.0 gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2 /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop | 6.0 gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2 //etc/defoma/hints/gsfonts.hints | 6.0 jackd 5 /etc/bash_completion.d/jackd | 6.0 live-helper 2.0.11-1 /etc/cron.daily/live-helper | 6.0 live-helper 2.0.11-1 /etc/default/live-helper | 6.0 live-helper 2.0.11-1 /etc/default/live-helper_autobuild | 6.0 live-helper 2.0.11-1 /etc/logrotate.d/live-helper | 6.0 mc 3:4.7.0.9-1 /etc/mc/extfs/sfs.ini | 6.0 mc 3:4.7.0.9-1 /etc/mc/extfs/extfs.ini | 6.0 mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.8-5 /etc/gnashpluginrc | 6.0 opera 11.00.1156 /etc/operaprefs_default.ini | 6.0 opera 11.00.1156 /etc/operaprefs_fixed.ini | 6.0 system-tools-backends 2.10.1-2 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf | 6.0 tex-common 2.08 /etc/texmf/language.d/00tex.cnf | 6.0 texlive-base 2009-11 /etc/texmf/language.d/09texlive-base.cnf | 6.0 texlive-latex-base 2009-11 /etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg | 6.0 tracker 0.8.17-1 /etc/sysctl.d/30-tracker.conf | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-cyrillic | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-hebrew | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-latin2 | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-greek | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-thai | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-arabic | 6.0 xpdf-common 3.02-9 /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc-turkish -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110118234834.GA5000@Europa.office