Hi, cruft-ng aims to provide an output that is character-identical to "cruft", so it's documentation or this article also apply:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/28/debian-cleanup-tip-5-identify-cruft-that-can-be-removed-from-your-debian-system/ > etckeeper There is currenlty no rule for this tool, so cruft/cruft-ng can't know which files are OK and which are extraneous. This is a known design limitation, and here's a proposal to fix some of it by moving somefunctionality in dpkg itself: https://wiki.debian.org/Cruft/purge Meanwhile, I've digged this: https://sources.debian.net/src/etckeeper/1.18.1/debian/postrm/ Can you provide a listing of /etc/.etckeeper & /var/cache/etckeeper ? ("find /etc/.etckeeper ; find /var/cache/etckeeper") I could blindly add this rule, but I'd rather had a look a the files first. -------------8<---------8<------------- /etc/.etckeeper/** /var/cache/etckeeper /var/cache/etckeeper/** -------------8<---------8<------------- You can try it yourself by creating a text file in /etc/cruft/filters/etckeeper/etckeeper or /usr/lib/cruft/filters-unex/etckeeper . Creating it in /usr/... means it will be overwritten by a new cruft|cruft-common release; which is the behaviour you probably want here. If the same rule exists in both /etc/... & /usr/... the one in /etc/ takes precedence, like for systemd units. (but there is no equivalent to systemd-delta) > /etc & /var/log. each file in /etc or /var/log may be linked to a different package; that means adding yet more indivudal rules > The cruft-ng tool reports tons of files under /usr/local > I cannot see any way to prevent it from doing that. You need to create your own rule in "/etc/cruft/filters/sed" with -------------8<---------8<------------- /usr/local/** -------------8<---------8<------------- to ignore or whatever appropriate. Why 'sed', because: *) I just noticed forgot to had a rule to match all the all-upercases files in /etc/cruft/filters (#!%/!!*) all-upercase meaning: "process this rule even if package or matching name" is not installed *) sed doesn't need a rule *) sed is allways installed (popcon #2) Hopes it helps, Alexandre Detiste -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
