purge a package without removing config or remaining files
The Debian version of the logitechmediaserver has gotten tangled up with dpkg. The package used to be squeezeboxserver. They created a new package named logitechmediaserver. However, most of the config files were retained with their old names. Installing lms triggered a remove of sbs, then used the existing config files - so it looked like an upgrade. The problem is that we can't now purge squeezeboxserver since it tries to remove the config files now used by logitechmediaserver. Any suggestions as to how to fix this. Would hacking the postrm script in info work? There is also a .list file - I don't know if dpkg tries to delete those - if so I'd have to hack it as well. I think this would clean me up, but it's not an exportable solution. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1RTJZ6-0005Mj-CC@Aptiva
Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files
Hello Marc! I believe your problem *shoud(TM)* be fixed by not purging but removing: aptitude remove squeezeboxserver or: dpkg remove squeezeboxserver Not sure if the remove option is exactly the same for dpkg, but it should be and otherwise that could be easy to find out from the manpage. - It says, that remove is exactly there, to remove a package aka it's binariesand libs, but not its config files. Warmly yours Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! == Find my music at == http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html . If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. (Winnie the Pooh) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.232236180.25...@britney.spears.net
Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files
Julien Claassen jul...@mail.upb.de writes: Hello Marc! I believe your problem *shoud(TM)* be fixed by not purging but removing: aptitude remove squeezeboxserver or: dpkg remove squeezeboxserver Not sure if the remove option is exactly the same for dpkg, but it should be and otherwise that could be easy to find out from the manpage. - It says, that remove is exactly there, to remove a package aka it's binariesand libs, but not its config files. Warmly yours Julien Thanks. I was not clear enough. It was automatically removed when the new package was installed. It now lurks in the configured state waiting for me to accidently purge it and destroy my new installation. I'd like to get rid that risk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762iatqqs@aptiva.optonline.net
Re: purge a package without removing config or remaining files
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:31:55 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: Thanks. I was not clear enough. It was automatically removed when the new package was installed. It now lurks in the configured state waiting for me to accidently purge it and destroy my new installation. I'd like to get rid that risk. You might try renaming the config files temporarily, then purging the old package, then renaming the config files back to their old names. Something like this: mv x.conf y.conf aptitude purge old-package-name mv y.conf x.conf It will attempt to erase the config files during the purge, but it will not find them, since they have been renamed. If the missing config files cause an error in the package purge (they shouldn't), you can create dummy config files that it can happily erase. Then, after the package is successfully purged, rename the files back to the original names and you should be good to go. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/285870848.350697.1322101055146.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
