On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:34:00PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > Thanks Kevin for telling me about dpkg -S . When I run it, it lists: > " > postgresql: /etc/cron.d/postgresql > postgresql-client: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env > postgresql: /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf > postgresql: /etc/init.d/postgresql > postgresql-contrib: /etc/logrotate.d/postgresql-contrib > postgresql: /etc/logrotate.d/postgresql > postgresql: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/postgresql > postgresql-client: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-client > postgresql: /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-postgresql > postgresql: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/postgresql > postgresql: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/postgresql > postgresql: /etc/postgresql > postgresql: /etc/postgresql/pg_ident.conf > ". It used to list a lot more, like docs, but I did apt-get remove on > their associated packages. When I did "apt-get remove postgresql-doc" it > said it couldn't remove /usr/share/doc/postgresql because it wasn't > empty. I don't see why that should be a problem for apt-get, but > /usr/share/doc/postgresql and /usr/share/doc/postgresql-client are still > there. But now package postgresql-doc seems removed from the dpkg > listing. The above listed files are all that dpkg lists matched against > "postgresql", so I suppose there could be more in files that don't have > "postgresql" in their pathname. I did "apt-get remove" on each of the > packages listed above, and apt-get said they were not installed. I tried > deleting a few by hand, especially the cron one because it was harassing > me, but it is still listed by dpkg. Is the apt-get/dpkg contradiction a > real bug? Do you think I should just try installing from source? Thanks. > Nick
It looks like there are still configuration files around. Configuration files can be removed at the time that a package is uninstalled by running `apt-get --purge remove' or `dpkg --purge'. After you have already uninstalled the package, you can remove its files with `dpkg --purge' (apt-get won't work for that purpose anymore). I don't know why a cronjob in /etc/cron.d, or a startup script in /etc/init.d would be marked as a conffile though. Is that perhaps a packaging bug? -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 08/18/2004. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***
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