Re: Automatically purging non-official packages
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well.
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