Don Armstrong wrote: > mad wrote: > > I am using equivs to create simple packages with dependencies and a few > > files. > > > > Now I removed one file from the equivs package and installed the > > resulting deb file. The deb file does not contain the file but dpkg did > > not remove the old file and says that the file belongs to the package. > > > > What did I do wrong? > > Files in /etc are usually conffiles, which are not removed on upgrade by > default. Presumably equivs is following standard practice, and marking > them as such unless you do work to avoid it.
Likely. If so you can test for this by querying the package database.
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' foopackagenamehere
That will list out the files from that package along with the checksum
of it. If you want a full dump from the system then don't specify a
package name. But then better "page" it or grep for just what you
want. I have 121 of them on my system from various packages.
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete
Bob
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