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Re: Automatically purging non-official packages



On Du, 11 mar 12, 12:31:11, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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,

aptitude purge ~o (has been mentioned already)

> and downgrades (or upgrades) all packages to the most recent version 
> available.

Pinning one source lower than the one you want to keep and perform an 
upgrade should do the trick and I think it can be done with 
apt-get/aptitude command line options only, but I'm too lazy to check.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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