Your message dated Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:54:17 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#199651: dpkg: Purging instead of removing if no
conffiles would be great
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regarding dpkg/apt: when removing a package, purge it if no config files
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.10
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/dpkg
As I understand, removing a package instead of purging it is only meant
to leave the config files installed. So does it make any sense to leave a
record in the package database (an "rc" line in the "dpkg -l" output) when
there aren't any config files in the package? Here is an example of a
removed (but not purged) package:
$ dpkg -L libgmp3
Package `libgmp3' does not contain any files (!)
My suggestion is to automatically purge a package when it is requested to be
removed, iff the package does not contain any config files. Is that feasible?
Thanks,
- Stephan.
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Hi!
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:33:10 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:26:31AM +0100, Eric Estievenart wrote:
> > => at least 130 could have been purged, with all corresponding files
> > in var/lib/dpkg/info
>
> Please note that the difference between remove/purge is one of
> all configuration of a package, not just its conffiles. dpkg
> can't know wether a package does delete additional data
> (like e.g. debconf or ucf data) in case of a purge or not.
As Frank said, it's not possible for dpkg to know this, and in fact
it already purges a package when the user asked for removal iff there's
no conffiles and there's no postrm script.
Thus closing.
regards,
guillem
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