Paul Wise wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
How can I as a system administrator clean that obsolete conffile up?
rm -f /etc/some-obsolete-conffile
apt-get --reinstall install package-that-provided-the-obsolete-conffile
Ah! Thanks. That works.
I have many obsolete conffiles on my system.
Paul Wise wrote:
Please file bugs about obsolete conffiles when you find new ones. The
packages themselves should clean up their obsolete conffiles.
Is there a bug example or two you could point me to so that I can
follow the standard template of reporting these problems? It appears
I have
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Is there a bug example or two you could point me to so that I can
follow the standard template of reporting these problems? It appears
I have some bug reports to file against packages in Wheezy.
Here is a recent example of one I filed:
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:49:48PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
But of course many packages are difficult to purge.
Every package must be possible to purge, if it is not possible then it
is a release-critical issue and you should file a severity
I have many obsolete conffiles on my system. It has been upgraded
through many releases.
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete
Picking a simple one as an example:
/etc/skel/.bash_profile d1a8c44e7dd1bed2f3e75d1343b6e4e1 obsolete
If I purge the package and install it fresh then
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have many obsolete conffiles on my system.
Please file bugs about obsolete conffiles when you find new ones. The
packages themselves should clean up their obsolete conffiles. To help
with this task, you can install the package called
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