Package: localepurge
Version: 0.5.9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As I was using symlinks(1) to clean up /usr/share/man and
/etc/alternatives this morning, I thought how convenient it would be to
have this optionally performed by localepurge at the end.
Here is a patch which runs "symlinks -r -d" on the the appropriate
directories if "SYMLINKS" is specified in the /etc/locale.nopurge file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages localepurge depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.14.12 package maintenance system for Deb
ii locales 2.7-3 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii procps 1:3.2.7-5 /proc file system utilities
ii ucf 3.004 Update Configuration File: preserv
localepurge recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* localepurge/showfreedspace: true
localepurge/remove_no:
* localepurge/mandelete: true
* localepurge/quickndirtycalc: true
localepurge/none_selected: false
* localepurge/nopurge: en, en_US.UTF-8
* localepurge/dontbothernew: false
* localepurge/verbose: false
--- a/etc/locale.nopurge
+++ b/etc/locale.nopurge
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
#VERBOSE
#####################################################
+# Run symlinks
+#SYMLINKS
+
+#####################################################
# Following locales won't be deleted from this system
# after package installations done with apt-get(8):
--- a/usr/sbin/localepurge 2007-12-06 15:36:02.000000000 -0500
+++ b/usr/sbin/localepurge 2007-12-06 15:32:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -214,6 +214,20 @@
fi
fi
+# Getting rid of dangling symlinks
+
+ALTDIR=/etc/alternatives
+SYMLINKSBIN=/usr/bin/symlinks
+
+if [ -x $SYMLINKSBIN -a "$(grep -x ^SYMLINKS /etc/locale.nopurge)" ]; then
+ if [ "$VERBOSE" = "enabled" ]; then
+ echo "localepurge: processing dangling symlinks ..."
+ $SYMLINKSBIN -d -r $LOCALEDIR $MANPAGEDIR $ALTDIR | grep dangling
+ else
+ $SYMLINKSBIN -d -r $LOCALEDIR $MANPAGEDIR $ALTDIR >/dev/null
+ fi
+fi
+
# Calculating and reporting total disk space freed:
if [ "$SHOWFREEDSPACE" = "enabled" ]; then
