Re: Automatically purging non-official packages
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs
> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed
> from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives.
The only idea scares me :-}
> Has anyone ever written something similar for Debian? I'm thinking of a
> script that deletes all packages that are not retrievable from any of
> the registered sources, and downgrades (or upgrades) all packages to the
> most recent version available.
I'm not aware of any, but I would prefer to do that job manually and
carefully picking the available sources, packages and versions as
possible candidates for installing/upgrading/downgrading.
Anyway, porting the script to Debian shouldn't be difficult but I'm a bit
reluctant of that sort of automatisms.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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