Re: Why is help so hard to find?
On Sat January 15 2011 18:02:06 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Judging from further discussion, it looks like the reason why I've never
> seen this is that I routinely purge deinstalled packages on all my
> systems and most of the problems are with packages that have been
> deinstalled but not purged and have obsolete init scripts. I wonder if we
> should suggest people consider doing that before the upgrade if they don't
> have any old configuration files around that they care about.
I don't think that will work, although I don't understand why. Here's
an example from one of our upgrade tests. The package is installed
but has obsolete conffiles and thereby caused insserv setup to fail.
--Mike Bird
# dpkg -s bittorrent
Package: bittorrent
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 588
Maintainer: Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.4.2-11.3
Depends: python (>= 2.3), python-support (>= 0.90.0), lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: bittorrent-gui
Conffiles:
/etc/init.d/bittorrent 128966d79d03469e179f57d6210f2b47 obsolete
/etc/default/bittorrent 1a6947090e36f417eb508953794dc303 obsolete
Description: Original BitTorent client - console tools
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