Hi, Okay, so after a few months of running fink, downloading source files, switching to CVS selfupdates, and updating packages, my /sw/ directory is full of leftovers. I've been keeping an eye on the /sw/src/ directory, but the .deb files are multiplying day by day. A week or two ago, someone else asked a similar question about removing those .deb files, too.
So I hacked a little python program to find the .deb files and compare them to dpkg's status file, /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, and tell me which .debs are still in use. It's attached to this email (rather than included inline) given python's strict whitespace rules and most MUAs' disrespect therefor. My question, then, is: Is this safe? Once I've upgraded a package, do I need the "old" .deb files? If I remove the .deb in the /sw/fink/dists/.../ directory and the link to it from the /sw/fink/debs/ directory, is that it? It "works" for my installation, under the assumptions that fink's base is /sw/, dpkg's "status" file is /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status, and that the installation is reasonably sane. If there's enough interest, I can make it more robust. Then again, perhaps that effort would be better directed towards a more effective and thorough "fink remove" command. Regards, Dan
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