Re: Is this normal?

[Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 06:55:38PM +0200, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote:
> There's only one entry in there that is not a leftover dpkg thingy.
> All the 30 others are leftover dpkg-{old,dist,devert-tmp} files...
> 
> Now, should I make a cronjob to rm these files, or should dpkg do that?
> IMHO dpkg should do that :)

-old and -dist are left there intentionally, because they contain a backup
(-old) or a suggestion (-dist) for config files after an upgrade of a
package. dpkg can't delete them cause it does not know when you feel safe to
remove them. You can set up a cron job to delete week old files.

Greetings
Bernd