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finding leftovers



Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version
leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an
example, after purging all the xemacs packages:

nr# dpkg -l xemacs*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
pn  xemacs          <none>         (no description available)
pn  xemacs-support  <none>         (no description available)
pn  xemacs-widget   <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs19        <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs19-suppor <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs19-suppor <none>         (no description available)
pn  xemacs20        <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs20-bin    <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs20-mule   <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs20-mule-c <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs20-nomule <none>         (no description available)
pn  xemacs20-suppor <none>         (no description available)
un  xemacs20-suppor <none>         (no description available)

I still have:

nr# du /etc/xemacs20/
1       /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d
2       /etc/xemacs20

Is there a way to see what files are in my system that do not belong
to any installed package? It would probably be a script that would
inspect the installed packages and compare with the hd.

Sure, it would have to ignore

/home
/var/spool
/var/log

and maybe even:

/usr/local

and others...

Thanks!

-- 
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella                 Product Engineer
zorzella@conexware.com          http://www.conexware.com


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