Received Sun 01 Jun 2008 10:47pm +1000 from Reuben Thomas:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Graham Williams wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestions Reuben. Comments are below...
>>
>>
>> Received Sat 26 Apr 2008 6:20am +1000 from Reuben Thomas:
>>> Package: wajig
>>> Version: 2.0.38
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>>
>>> I often go through my packages and purge configuration files of removed
>>> packages. It'd be nice to do at least one of two things:
>>>
>>> 1. Have wajig purge prompt. I often want to know whether a purge is
>>> likely to cause problems, so I run wajig remove to see if any problems
>>> will be caused, then wajig purge to remove the packages. This is to
>>> avoid the situation where packages are purged but still installed
>>> because of dependency problems, as wajig purge doesn't prompt, but just
>>> goes ahead and tries to purge the packages you ask to be purged without
>>> first checking dependencies.
>>
>> I just use dpkg --purge here. So wajig does not dependency checks. In
>> fact, doesn't it fail if there are dependencies?
>
> Yes, but the packages are still marked as "purge" afterwards, as with
> (and presumably because of!) dpkg --purge.
Okay. So perhaps that's a dpkg issue? Happy to put submitted code into
wajig to address this if you have some.
>>> 2. Add wajig purge-removed to purge packages that have already been
>>> removed but have configuration files still in the system. This is useful
>>> in its own right e.g. after a system upgrade. I use the following script
>>> for this at the moment:
>>>
>>> dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\t${Status}\n' | grep "deinstall ok
>>> config-files" | cut -f 1 | xargs wajig purge
>>>
>>
>> Would this be the same as dpkg --purge --pending?
>
> No, because such packages are not marked as pending anything.
I see. Perhaps I will just include the above snippet then for the
"purge-removed" command.
Thanks,
Graham
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