Re: Removal of logfiles?
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> paulwade@greenbush.com <paulwade@greenbush.com> wrote:
> > A few weeks ago I was running dselect via telnet and the remote machine
> > got disconnected at exactly the wrong time. When I reconnected, I had to
> > purge and reinstall a package to finish the upgrade. This is a situation
> > where I would not want the logfiles purged.
> >
> > However - I do like a clean house. If removing/purging packages generated
> > 'reminder' email (directory /usr/lib/foo not empty so not removed), I
> > would never complain about that.
>
> A reminder email won't necessarily work. Even if you had a dependency
> on mail transport agent, you can uninstall (which means dependencies
> don't matter any more) then later purge.
>
> A question in the postrm would be more useful.
I have /var/log/dpkg-mountable* files. I don't know if using other methods
generates a log or not, but looking at this I see that messages such as
'you may need to edit' are preserved - also some unpack and config stage
errors.
I suppose checking this logfile will remind me to clean up after myself.
pw
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