Hi! On Fri, 2024-09-27 at 23:12:44 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Josh Triplett (2024-09-27 23:04:03) > > After running mmdebstrap, the following files still exist in the chroot: > > > > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old > > /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old > > /var/lib/dpkg/diversions-old > > /var/lib/dpkg/status-old > > > > I think it would make sense for mmdebstrap's cleanup to remove these > > files, to make a smaller chroot. > > > > This would also eliminate some special cases in other parts of > > mmdebstrap, which currently need to ignore the contents of these files. > > the reason they are still there is simple: I have no idea why they exist in > the > first place. Do dpkg or debconf do anything with the *-old files? Are they > inspected or consumed by any other piece of software? Why do we need them?
For dpkg, these are backup files done any time the main file gets modified, so that the user could go back in case of a mess up or similar. For the bootstrapping case, it makes sense to remove *-old inside /var/lib/dpkg/. Thanks, Guillem
