In <[🔎] 4B8CC633.7090609@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/2/2010 1:21 AM: >> In <[🔎] 4B8C7C66.6070109@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>>>> it auto removes Exim4 however still leaves all the >>>>> orphaned files and junk.* >>>> >>>> I'm not convinced this is a statement of fact, but depending on how the >>>> installer does things it could be accurate. >>> >>> I don't recall doing any manual removal of Exim. I've upgraded >>> the system in place all the way to Lenny, over a 4 year period. >> >> Most of those should be cleaned up by a purge of all the exim packages. >> In particular all the init scripts, the dpkg data, and probably the cron >> jobs. > >This is probably a result of me installing postfix without uninstalling exim >first. It's surprising that the apt scripts that installed postfix and >removed exim left all this other stuff which can't possibly work now without >that exim binary being present. It's nothing to do with the order your installed packages. It is the difference between removed and purged. Confiles -- files where changes by the local administrator are preserved when upgrading -- are kept after removal. While this category covers files that are just configuration, it also covers init scripts and cron jobs. Confiles are not deleted when the program is removed -- so the configuration is preserved if this is just a temporary removal (required for some complex upgrades). Confiles are deleted when the package is purged. Files that are created by the program at run-time, like logs, databases, and documents aren't tracked by the package management system, so they must be deleted manually if you want to get rid of them. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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