Hi, Micah Anderson <mi...@riseup.net> writes:
> * Andrew Pollock <apoll...@debian.org> [2009-07-10 18:57-0400]: >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:44:00PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> > >> > Micah Anderson <mi...@riseup.net> writes: >> > >> > > * Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> [2009-04-27 >> > > 10:33-0400]: >> > > Its impossible to remove the puppet package, without also removing the >> > > puppetmaster package. Puppetmaster depends heavily on the libraries that >> > > are included in the puppet package. >> > >> > Right, but it is possible to purge puppet and only remove (not purge) >> > the puppetmaster package. In this case only the files belonging to >> > puppet should be removed. >> >> Really? How do you purge the puppet package but not purge the puppetmaster >> package (I guess apart from removing them both and then explicitly purging >> the >> puppet package) That is what I did. > For a minute there, due to the quoting, I thought I had written that and > I was really stumped what I meant. Then I went and read the bug from the > top and I see that it wasn't me who wrote that, but Ansgar who did. > > I just tried a few different things, and I cannot find a way to do this, > except for the method that you described (remove both, then explicitly > purging the puppet package). I'm not sure what the point of doing that > is though. > > Ansgar, could you describe what functionality you are trying to achieve? I did mess around with the puppet configuration and did want to go back to a clean state (for puppet, not for puppetmaster). So I did remove both packages, purged the puppet package and then reinstalled them. But surprisingly this did also remove the CA puppetmaster created. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org