Re: cleanup after dist-upgrade

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:29 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
>   
> > What's the best way to clean this up?  By the looks of it I now have
> > two versions of mysql installed.  mysql -V does give me the 5.0.30
> > though:
> >     
> [snip]
>
> I just noticed:
>   
> > ii  mysql-server-4.1               5.0.30-1   <====
> > mysql database server (transitional package)
> >     
>
> Ok, so it's not an issue.
>
> Will these packages eventually be removed with regular apt-get
> update/upgrade?
>   
I don't think so, but transitional packages like the mysql-server-4.1 
can be safely removed once they have brought in the new packages as a 
dependency.  You can check this with apt-get show, or aptitude show.

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Marc Shapiro
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