On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few weeks ago I was running dselect via telnet and the remote machine > > got disconnected at exactly the wrong time. When I reconnected, I had to > > purge and reinstall a package to finish the upgrade. This is a situation > > where I would not want the logfiles purged. > > > > However - I do like a clean house. If removing/purging packages generated > > 'reminder' email (directory /usr/lib/foo not empty so not removed), I > > would never complain about that. > > A reminder email won't necessarily work. Even if you had a dependency > on mail transport agent, you can uninstall (which means dependencies > don't matter any more) then later purge. > > A question in the postrm would be more useful.
I have /var/log/dpkg-mountable* files. I don't know if using other methods generates a log or not, but looking at this I see that messages such as 'you may need to edit' are preserved - also some unpack and config stage errors. I suppose checking this logfile will remind me to clean up after myself. pw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
