Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Mark Blakeney mark.blake...@bullet-systems.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: In my limited experience of purge-ppa, it's worked very well. About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't like it so immediately

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) In my limited experience of purge-ppa, it's worked very well. My guess is that is highly dependant

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:36:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: That applies to non-Debian repositories but not to PPAs that's probably why Ubunical created apt-add-repository with which you can add any repository including PPAs and

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: In my limited experience of purge-ppa, it's worked very well. About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't like it so immediately just did a ppa-purge on that ppa which proceeded to remove *every* X/gui/video based

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón noela...@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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones available in Debian repositories.

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) In my limited experience of purge-ppa, it's worked very well. My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the lesser repositories available + basic

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to remove non official versions of the

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:52:47 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:34 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: (...) In my limited experience of purge-ppa, it's worked very well. My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the lesser

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:13:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones available in Debian repositories. Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command rm in the

Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
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 :-}

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org 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. Has anyone

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I don't know the ppa-purge script. A good tool to identify from which source installed packages are coming seems to me apt-get-versions. Piping the output to a grep command similar to the following for a mixed (from testing, unstable, and experimental) system $ apt-show-versions | grep -Ev

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón noela...@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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón noela...@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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón noela...@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