Bug#158862: marked as done (dpkg: Remove files from /usr/local... which are in installed package)
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From: Martin Bammer <martin@tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: dpkg: Remove files from /usr/local... which are in installed package
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:11:46 +0200
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: wishlist
I sometimes have the problem, that I want to install a recent version of a program, but there is no
debian-package available at this time. So I install a tar.gz and the files will be placed in
/usr/local...
When later there is a debian-package available the same files will be placed in /usr...
but the files in /usr/local... are still there and can produce problems when the PATH variable is
set appropriate. Additionally disk space is wasted when the files remain in /usr/local...
An option to activate this feature would be nice.
Greetings, Martin Bammer
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux bender 2.4.19 #1 Tue Aug 13 17:48:35 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.4 a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
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Subject: Re: Bug#158862: dpkg: Remove files from /usr/local... which are in
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Martin Bammer wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10.4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I sometimes have the problem, that I want to install a recent version of a program, but there is no
> debian-package available at this time. So I install a tar.gz and the files will be placed in
> /usr/local...
> When later there is a debian-package available the same files will be placed in /usr...
> but the files in /usr/local... are still there and can produce problems when the PATH variable is
> set appropriate. Additionally disk space is wasted when the files remain in /usr/local...
> An option to activate this feature would be nice.
>
> Greetings, Martin Bammer
Ha, no.
/usr/local is the domain of the admin. Debian doesn't touch it, except to
make dirs in pkg.postinst if they don't exist.
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