Re: Potato->Woody (Packages mix-up)
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:07:59AM -0500, Alec wrote:
> I recently upgraded from potato to woody and I'm wondering why
>
> dpkg -l | grep potato
> gives a bunch of matches (see them at the end of this message), even though
> there's no "potato" or "stable" in /etc/apt/sources.list
The packages you list are in the 'rc' state, i.e. removed but with
configuration files still present. They have therefore not been
upgraded. If you decide you won't need those configuration files again
(use 'dpkg -s' to find out what they are), you can remove those packages
with 'dpkg --purge'.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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