Never mind, figured it out. :-)
--DaveDavid Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze > from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from > the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package > left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-common from version 1. I > discovered this when I did a > > aptitude search '~c' > > to see if there were any packages that I could clean up (I don't like to > leave config files laying around when I've removed something). Several > were found, including the old dovecot-common package (which as of > version 2, is a transitional package that doesn't need to be there). > > So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a > > aptitude purge '~p' > > to clean them up. Everything *except* dovecot-common went away. When > it got to dovecot-common, it just gave me an error message. Oh, and it > deleted /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for me before erroring out. Oops. > Thankfully I found a backup copy in /usr/share/dovecot which I was able > to copy back. :-) > > But in the meantime, I've still got this old reference to version 1 > dovecot-common. > >> # aptitude search '~c' >> c dovecot-common - Transitional package for dovecot > >> # dpkg -s dovecot-common >> Package: dovecot-common >> Status: purge ok config-files >> Priority: optional >> Section: mail >> Installed-Size: 18948 >> Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers <jaldhar-dove...@debian.org> >> Architecture: amd64 >> Source: dovecot >> Version: 1:1.2.15-7 >> Replaces: dovecot >> Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), libdb4.8, >> libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.8+dfsg), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= >> 1.6.dfsg.2), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1), >> libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328), libsqlite3-0 (>= >> 3.7.3), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libpam-runtime (>= >> 0.76-13.1), openssl, adduser, ucf (>= 2.0020) >> Suggests: ntp >> Description: secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes >> Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme >> reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify >> that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It should >> also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable. >> . >> This package contains the files used by both the dovecot IMAP and POP3 >> servers >> and the Dovecot LDA (deliver). >> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ > > I suppose it's not actually hurting anything by remaining there, but I'd > prefer to get it to purged status (p) when doing a "aptitude search > dovcot" and looking at the list if I can. > > So, the question is: *Is* there a way I can get it to clear that "c" > flag and put it back to a "p" like it should be? How to get rid of the > error when trying to purge it? (Or if it's really purged, then back to > how to get it to *list* it as being purged?) > > Do I need to remove/purge all my dovecot packages and reinstall after > getting -common out? (I'd prefer to NOT do that if it can be avoided.) > > --Dave
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