$ dpkg -l initramfs-tools Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ pn initramfs-tool <none> (no description available)
Perhaps dpkg should suggest some mechanism for one package to add/alter/mark files of some other package? --- On Tue, 12/23/08, boss ganesh <boss....@gmail.com> wrote: > From: boss ganesh <boss....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Bug#509237: purge: /var/lib/initramfs-tools' not empty so not > removed > To: shaulk...@yahoo.com, 509...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 7:43 AM > Dear shaul Kari > It shows the output like that > but it has almost > removed all the files.. if any files used by the system > from that folder it > throws the error like what you mailed > what is the output of dpkg -l initramfs-tools > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:10 AM, shaul Karl > <shaulk...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.92j > > Severity: normal > > > > Not sure if I had 0.92j. As you can see, I have > already purged it. > > > > Removing initramfs-tools ... > > Purging configuration files for initramfs-tools ... > > dpkg - warning: while removing initramfs-tools, > directory > > `/var/lib/initramfs-tools' not empty so not > removed. > > > > Indeed, /var/lib/initramfs-tools is not empty. > Wasn't initramfs-tools > > the one who wrote to that dir in the first place? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > -- > bossganesh > BOSSTeam > CDAC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org