[Aptitude-devel] why does not aptitude purge rather than just remove packages.

[shirish शिरीष]

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2012/3/13 Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>:
> 2012/3/13 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>> Sorry for touching an oldish thread (couple of weeks old). Today I had
>> time and tried few things :-
>>
>
> Hi Shirish

Hi Daniel,

>> $ aptitude search ?config-files
>>
>> c   libmarblewidget11                                   - Marble globe
>> widget library
>>  $ dpkg-query --showformat='${Conffiles}\n' --show libmarblewidget11
>>
>>
>> $
>
>>  /var/lib/dpkg/info$ cat libmarblewidget11.list
>> $
>>
>> As can be seen it is empty/contains nothing.
>>
>> $ cat libmarblewidget11.postrm
>> #!/bin/sh
>> set -e
>> # Automatically added by dh_makeshlibs
>> if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
>>        ldconfig
>> fi
>> # End automatically added section
>>
>> just says something about ldconfig (which if I understand correctly is
>> used to link shared libraries) so basically nothing's there.
>>
>
> Correct; there is nothing in postrm that is left to do.  Dpkg is not
> able to determine that effectively hence the package remains in the
> removed-but-not-purged state.
>
> In this case the package has no files left on the system except those
> under /var/lib/dpkg.  Purging the package will remove them, you should
> not attempt to remove them manually.
>

If I'm understanding the last statement you made, you mean I should
not delete the files manually but use aptitude purge $packagename to
do the thing for me.


>> Another point to note. It seems that neither '$ aptitude search
>> ?config-files' nor $ aptitude search ~c is documented anywhere either
>> in the man-page or in the help
>>
>
> Those places only document the command line interface.  Full
> documentation is available in the package aptitude-doc-en, or one of
> it's peers.
>

ah ok, looking at that then. Thank you for the package info.

>> Maybe I should file a bug, anybody ?
>>
>
> Everything looks fine to me.

Thanx.

>
> Some other places which may be more informative for you:
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
> [2] http://forums.debian.net/
> [3] http://www.debian.org/support#irc
>

Thanx, do use all of them quite a bit.

> Regards

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