Steven Stromer wrote:
I just ran a fink self-update, and I noticed that some packages that
were installed on my machine prior to updating were uninstalled, such as
the package libofx. When I look at their statuses using 'list' in Fink,
There is a newer version named libofx1 now. For compatibility reasons,
the name has to change; only a part of the old package, under the name
libofx-shlibs, is still around.
they are listed as not installed, and are listed in FinkCommander as
being 'archived', a status FinkCommander describes as 'mean[ing] that
you previously installed the package but removed it so that only the
debian archive remains on your system or that you ran the build command
for a package but have not yet installed it'.
Would it be correct to assume that these packages were uninstalled
because no other installed package has a dependency on them any longer,
and they have been replaced by other packages?
Yes, libofx itself did not allow dependencies on it, libofx-shlibs did,
and therefore the latter still exists.
Also, is it good practice to remove the 'debian archive' that has been
left behind? Can this even be done?
You can remove the debian archives (files with .deb extension) if you
wish, commands like "fink cleanup" even do this for you. The only
consequence you might have to face is that fink will recompile or
redownload the package if necessary, instead of just unpacking the deb
archive. This can sometimes be annoying; you don't want to remove
gettext-dev and libgettext3-dev deb files, for example, because these
packages love to be removed and reinstalled automatically during fink
package building.
Deb archives are found in two places: Those made on your machine by fink
are in the /sw/fink/dist hierarchy in subdirectories named
binary-darwin-powerpc and they are listed via symbolic links in the
directory /sw/fink/debs. Those downloaded via apt-get or via
install-from-binary by FinkCommander are in subdirectories of
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/
--
Martin
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