Paul Wise wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > How can I as a system administrator clean that obsolete conffile up?
>
> rm -f /etc/some-obsolete-conffile
> apt-get --reinstall install package-that-provided-the-obsolete-conffile
Ah! Thanks. That works.
> > I have many obsolete conffiles on my system.
>
> Please file bugs about obsolete conffiles when you find new ones. The
> packages themselves should clean up their obsolete conffiles.
I am cleaning up Squeeze systems before upgrading. But even Wheezy
and Sid have many. This is on my updated Sid system.
$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | awk '$NF=="obsolete"{print$1}' | xargs -L1 dlocate | awk -F: '{print$1}' | sort -u | wc -l
26
But it has been upgraded through many releases.. I don't know if
these are still a problem in recent versions or if these have been
hanging around since previous releases. I will clean up my Squeeze
machines and upgrade them to Wheezy. Then any obsolete conffiles left
will be current issues and can be filed.
> To help with this task, you can install the package called
> 'adequate' and enable the post-install debconf prompt.
Thanks for that pointer. I will try it.
> > But of course many packages are difficult to purge.
>
> Every package must be possible to purge, if it is not possible then it
> is a release-critical issue and you should file a severity serious bug
> against the package.
I didn't say impossible. I said difficult. There are dependencies
that cause a large cone to be removed. And then there are essential
packages. I am still trying to use the system at the same time.
$ sudo apt-get purge bash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bash-static
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bash* bash-completion* bashdb* common-lisp-controller* devscripts-el* dpatch* emacs-goodies-el* foomatic-db-engine* foomatic-filters* lsb* lsb-printing*
python-foomatic*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bash-static
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
bash
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 12 to remove and 203 not upgraded.
Need to get 937 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,134 kB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
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Thanks!
Bob
P.S. Here is my list on my Sid machine.
$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | awk '$NF=="obsolete"{print$1}' | xargs -L1 dlocate | awk -F: '{print$1}' |
sort -u
asciidoc
base-files
bash-completion
bashdb
chromium-browser
cvs
epiphany-browser-data
firebird2.5-common
gimp-data
gnome-panel-data
gsfonts
iceweasel
lightdm
lsb-core
mailgraph
setserial
shorewall
shorewall6
smartmontools
source-highlight
stunnel4
subversion-tools
ttf-arphic-uming
vlc-data
w3c-markup-validator
xserver-xorg-video-intel
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