Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> *- On 15 Mar, Richard Harran wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows"
> > After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll
> > own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading
> > hamm->slink). However, I dpkg warnings:
> > while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not empty so no
> > removed,
> > and the same for /etc/X11/xdm. Is it ok for me to manually remove these
> > directories and their contents, or will I break something?
> >
>
> As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect). The
My problem here is...
I use the apt method in dselect, and I can mark packages to purge (_),
but apt never purges anything... it removes (-) them instead.
> reason these messages come up is because there are files in those
> directories that are not listed in the package's list of files. In
> /var/state/xdm/authdir/authfiles/ there is the cookie file that is
> generated on the fly by xdm and is not in the package list. In
> /etc/X11/xdm there are lots of files that if edited or backed up then
> they will not part of the package list. So you truly want to
> completely wipe xdm from you system go ahead and manually clean out the
> directories and remove them.
>
> --
> Brian
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