Andreas Heinlein wrote: > I have a question regarding "take-over" of clients not initially > installed with FAI. Is it possible to purge any packages *not* listed in > package_config during softupdate?
No. This would involve a quite complex algorithm, because you have track down also all dependencies of explicitly listed packages, and their dependencies an so on. > I have read that one should not just > remove a package from the list that was previously installed, but > instead prepend it with a '-' sign. Depends on how clean you want the whole thing to be. To be really clean, I'd recommend installing from scratch. >But what if you do not know exactly > which packages were previously installed and want to just remove any > installed but unlisted package? As said, it's theoretically possible but would involve quite a bit of dependency tracking... Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de
