Re: Removing obsolete packages
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote:
> >>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <debian@fear.ch> writes:
>
> Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also
> Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed?
>
> Lukas> Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl
> Lukas> still there afterwards, because it's contained in the perl
> Lukas> package? Do I risk perl and dpkg to be unable to run by
> Lukas> removing perl-base?
>
> dpkg will refuse to remove a package if it removal would break another
> installed package (except if you force dpkg)
Nooooooo... see what happened....
io# /etc/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/init.d/sendmail: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or
directory
io# head -3 /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon
#!/usr/bin/perl --
$version= '1.4.0.8'; # This line modified by Makefile
io# ls /usr/bin/perl
ls: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory
That was exactly why I asked, to avoid this!
I used dselect, no happy dpkg hacking. grunt.
perl-base was marked Obsolete.
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