Re: dpkg can't remove directories

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:53:09PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:

> >  dpkg -i      [OK]
> >  dpkg --purge [warnings about non-empty directories]
> 
> As I said, the warning is harmless.

Well, they would be if the files got removed.  :)

> > Now dpkg claims only the config files are left. But, if I ask
> > for a list of files, it shows a bunch of them and only the last
> > one is a config file:
> >
> >   debian:~# dpkg -L tmpfs-support
> >   /etc/init.d/tmpfs-support.sh
> >   /etc/cron.daily/tmpfs-support
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel/var
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel/var/log
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel/var/log/wtmp
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel/var/run
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/skel/var/run/utmp
> >   /etc/tmpfs-support/config
> 
> These are all conffiles.

Two questions:

1) How do they get to be conffiles? Contents of debian/conffiles is

     /etc/tmpfs-support/config

2) Why does "dpkg --purge" only remove the one file (the one
   listed in debian/conffiles?

> Check your deb closer.

Be glad to...

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com


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