Re: debian-multimedia: wiki question
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:42:29PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > - would be good to change title and text of of 3.1
> > i could not figure out what the title means and how it relates to
> > the content of the section.
>
> I firmly believe documentation of ways to fork Debian (which adding a
> non-Debian package repository to APT essentially is) belongs elsewhere,
> and I will therefore not take part in discussing that for our wiki page.
Sure. But this discussion was just about faq 3.1, how to remove
such a repo and rebuild from debian repo.
> > Q: Is there a way to list just the explicitly installed packages
> > (as opposed to the ones pulled in by dependencies ?)
>
> Most minimal way is "apt-mark showmanual".
Ah, thanks!
> > If there where these two commands, one should be able to easily get rid of
> > deb-multimedia by
> > (1) listing packages installed from that repository
> > (2) list , match the packages manually installed
> > (3) identify manual installed packages from the repo
> > (4) remove repo from /etc/apt/sources.list
> > (5) apt-get-update, aptitute autoclean ?
> > (6) remove all packages installed from the repo (1)
> > (7) re-install packages from (3)
> >
> > So far i've only managed to do
> >
> > dpt-query -l | grep dmo
> >
> > to half-way identify packages from deb-multimedia and remove them. I could
> > remember which packages i installed manually and reinstalled them. But for
> > documenting a recommended way to remove a repo, that is not a good reuseable
> > approach.
>
> Hope above may get you back a sensible system.
Me too ;-)
Cheers
toerless
> - Jonas
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