On Sb, 26 nov 11, 18:20:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm not certain, but I THINK that these lines are all referring to > packages that were removed by the update, but whose config files > were not purged. There are 47 such files according to 'dpkg -l | > grep ^rc' and I recall apt-get saying that there were 43 packages to > be removed at one point (several others were removed separately) so > that sounds about right. Is there a way to purge those config files > without messing up anything else and without having to do each one > individually?
aptitude purge ~c is the simplest, every other solution involves some plumbing with dpkg and maybe apt. Recipes have been posted to this list before. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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