Hi Erich, Sorry for the long delay in replying
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:39:34PM +0200, Erich Minderlein wrote: > Am Samstag, den 11.07.2009, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Marcin Owsiany: > > Is this just a list of directories where locale-dependent files reside, > > or actually a list of directories that localepurge will process? > > yes, this is only a list of directories in section > ---- missing: dpkg ----, > that localepurge has processed, and it deleted the mentioned files > and the report of cruft mentions each file missing from dpkg > > > > > If the latter, then what does it do? Delete everything below them? Or > > just files directly below? Or non-directories below? > > Looking in my directory tree, > it lets remain the directory tree, but deletes the files only. To be honest it would be better to have something based on the actual localepurge algorighm, not its effects on one particular system. > from man bash : > quote > Within [ and ], character classes can be specified using the syntax Cruft's matching "engine" does not support named classes. Or any classes for that matter, IIRC. > I add a small bash script which effectively removes the broken symlinks, > which cruft has found. > > Maybe you include it in the next package version? I don't want to sound harsh, but that script would need some work. It contains some naive (in the technical sense) parsing and does not quote arguments to "cat", to begin with. regards, -- Marcin Owsiany <[email protected]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail." -- Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
