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Re: Removal of logfiles?



On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 07:48:32AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> paulwade@greenbush.com <paulwade@greenbush.com> wrote:
> > A few weeks ago I was running dselect via telnet and the remote machine
> > got disconnected at exactly the wrong time. When I reconnected, I had to
> > purge and reinstall a package to finish the upgrade. This is a situation
> > where I would not want the logfiles purged.
> > 
> > However - I do like a clean house. If removing/purging packages generated
> > 'reminder' email (directory /usr/lib/foo not empty so not removed), I
> > would never complain about that.
> 
> A reminder email won't necessarily work.  Even if you had a dependency
> on mail transport agent, you can uninstall (which means dependencies
> don't matter any more) then later purge.
> 
> A question in the postrm would be more useful.

Or a dpkg logfile where it logs every modification done (installations,
deinstallations, upgrades, ...). IIRC, dpkg-mountable already uses such a
logfile, but I think it should be dpkg itself the one that generates it.

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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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