Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the moment,

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
W Paul Mills writes: nr# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (No such file

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joerg Plate writes: I guess I'll just delete them and just forget about it :^ man symlinks I believe you mean man symlink, and you are talking about: NOTES No checking of oldpath is done. Deleting the name referred to by a symlink will actually delete the file

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:18:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Since we're talking about leftovers, these messages are, AFAIK, due to leftovers from some packages, and they are not directories. Can you tell me how to get rid of them? They appear in some dpkg -i commands...

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-19 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the moment, and we hope to have the proper solution implemented for

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Normally, all directories that are not needed anymore are removed. In this special case, they are not. Marcus It's not a bug, it's a feature! ... but about a dozen bug reports are open against dpkg for this particular feature at the moment, and I hope one day it

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d dpkg:

finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: nr# dpkg -l xemacs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh. This shouldn't happen... nr#

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh.

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. Note, though, that: 1) this is a directory, and not a file! 2) I already purged xemacs* ! Sure. The

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. Note, though, that: 1) this is a directory, and not a file! 2) I already purged

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found.