[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#820947: smbclient: [regression] pulls the server package "samba" via samba-libs since 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1 (DSA 3548-1)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Harald Dunkel wrote:

> unattended_upgrades installed (next to samba) about 10 to 20 other
> unwanted packages on about 80 hosts in my network. The upgrade to
> the fixed version did not remove these unwanted packages again.
> 
> Please advice how to identify and remove these packages.

You can first purge the samba package:

dpkg --purge samba

Then you can use deborphan to indentify unwanted packages.

# deborphan 
libhdb9-heimdal
libck-connector0
libgssapi3-heimdal
samba-dsdb-modules
# dpkg --purge `deborphan`

You need to do this several times because removing some packages make
more packages to be "orphanable".

If you do this on a single machine, step by step, you will be able to
construct a list of unwanted packages, and then execute a command like
this on the other 79 machines, or even in all machines, as removing
an already removed package should be harmless:

dpkg --purge samba libhdb9-heimdal libck-connector0 [...]

where [...] represents the complete list.

If you are using ansible, that would be something like this:

ansible myservers -a "dpkg --purge package1 package2 [...]"


Hope this helps.