On Vi, 09 ian 15, 16:54:39, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various
> > reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still
> > present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how
> > can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to
> > select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this
> > please help?
aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(^stable$)))'
If you are satisfied with the result replace 'search' with 'purge'.
> If you want to purge all packages which are installed and installable,
> but where the version is the same as in an earlier release... that's
> probably going to need some scripting :)
I must be misunderstanding something, but why would anyone want to
remove those?
Kind regards,
Andrei
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