On 31-Jan-00, 16:44 (CST), Brock Rozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I understand correctly, remove removes the binaries. Leaves docs, etc.
>
> Right?
Wrong. More explicitly: dpkg removes everything
in /var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.list that isn't also in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.conffiles. The maintai
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is why I particular hate the bug in dpkg that warns the
> administrator that empty directories have not been deleted.
Usually (always?) this warning is wrong and it will be deleted in the
purge process later.
Falk
Chris Waters wrote:
> Actuallychecking...this seems to be true, and I don't think we
> want it to be true. Every program that's found in the default path,
> yes, but I was certainly under the impression that we don't want or
> need man pages for what might be called "private binaries",
> i.e.
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chris Waters wrote:
> > Actuallychecking...this seems to be true, and I don't think we
> > want it to be true. Every program that's found in the default path,
> > yes, but I was certainly under the impression that we don't want or
> > need man pages for
Chris Waters wrote:
> > The point seems to be, if it's something people would reasonably
> > expect find a man page on, something should be done.
>
> Yes, that seems reasonable. But I'm afraid it's ambiguous. The
> question is, what *would* we reasonably expect to find man pages on?
> Do private
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> And what about files that "belong" to multiple packages?
Raul> [And, how do you ensure the fresh install of a new such
Raul> package when the old one has been running for some time?]
Well, I already experience problems when
> "Falk" == Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Falk> Usually (always?) this warning is wrong and it will be
Falk> deleted in the purge process later.
Should I report filing bugs against packages which don't?
I know when I upgraded my computers to potato there were a number of
On 2 Feb 2000, Brian May wrote:
> dpkg --purge dhcpd-beta
>
> of course!
>
> WRONG! When purging dhcpd-beta, it automatically deletes
> /var/lib/dhcpd, hence breaking the copy og dhcpd that was previously
> installed.
Ok, lets apply this to apache again.
What if another pkg installs files into
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> What if another pkg installs files into
Adam> /var/{log,lib}/apache, or, /etc/apache? Apache's postinst
Adam> does an rm -rf on those dirs, and this will wipe out the
Adam> files owned by the other pkg. libapache-mod-js
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:44:11AM +0200, Brock Rozen wrote:
> If I understand correctly, remove removes the binaries. Leaves docs, etc.
>
> Right?
No. Remove removes everything which is replaceable, that is,
everything which appears in the original .deb except for files listed
as conffiles. It
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