On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed >> from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > > The only idea scares me :-} > >> Has anyone ever written something similar for Debian? I'm thinking of a >> script that deletes all packages that are not retrievable from any of >> the registered sources, and downgrades (or upgrades) all packages to the >> most recent version available. > > I'm not aware of any, but I would prefer to do that job manually and > carefully picking the available sources, packages and versions as > possible candidates for installing/upgrading/downgrading. > > Anyway, porting the script to Debian shouldn't be difficult but I'm a bit > reluctant of that sort of automatisms.
In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. -- 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/CAOdo=Sxzb1M_M9KREbbYBNHp5NmoRW3c31ygXs2fV9Ce=qw...@mail.gmail.com
