On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > 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.
My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the lesser repositories available + basic pinning rules = the higher chances for getting successful results. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/jjj604$jrs$1...@dough.gmane.org
