Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:26 -0500, Bryen wrote: To get a list of configuration files associated with an installed package, run the command 'rpm -qc package_name'. As additional aside, when you are updating a package (i.e., rpm -U package_name), modified configuration files are given the

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 00:19 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:26 -0500, Bryen wrote: Configuration files that have been determined by RPM database to have been modified are saved with a .rpmsave extension. -- ---Bryen--- Where are these saved? How do I manage (delete) these saves? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 11:52 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:26 -0500, Bryen wrote: Configuration files that have been determined by RPM database to have been modified are saved with a .rpmsave extension. In place, ie,

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 11:48 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this? AFAIK, they are not

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Jan Kupec
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 11:48 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this? AFAIK, they are not removed. At least, they

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:16 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: AFAIK, they are not removed. At least, they are not removed if they were modified. And how do I make sure this does happen? What do you want to do, remove them? That has to be done manually. For instance, if you install mysql,

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:30 +0200, Jan Kupec wrote: This is somewhat different - the database files are actually user data, not config files. They should never ever be erased automatically. And also it is not possible, since you can put your user data anywhere, package management does not

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-27 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 12:34 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What do you want to do, remove them? That has to be done manually. For instance, if you install mysql, create some databases, then remove mysql, the databases remain. You might want to

[opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-26 Thread Aniruddha
What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 00:19 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this? AFAIK, they are not

Re: [opensuse] How do I delete a programs and all it's configuration files?

2007-10-26 Thread Bryen
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:53 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-10-27 at 00:19 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: What's openSUSE's policy in regards to config files? Does removing programs with yast/zipper also remove it's config files by default? And if not how do I achieve this?