Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
Hi shirish,
2013-06-01 04:29 shirish शिरीष:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.9.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I am/was trying to purge a package which has been removed (to remove
the configuration files which have remained behind) but haven't been
able to remove it.
$ aptitude search gnotski
c gnotski -
Klotski puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package)
$ sudo aptitude purge gnotski -y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnotski{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
D000001: deferred_remove package gnotski:all
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnotski which isn't installed
Now the problem is when I do an aptitude search it shows that the
package has been removed as seen in the notation 'c' while searching
for it (as seen above) but there is something in the package which was
not removed.
Can something be done about this?
Is this with multi-arch enabled? gnotski is now a transitional package,
arch all, added on 25 May 2013 (very close to when the bug report
happened), it must have been arch-dependent before.
For more information, this is what happens in my system when mixing
multi-arch packages and the arch is not specified in the command line.
Maybe "aptitude purge ~c" (or something in the middle) missed passing
the arch to apt/dpkg, and that's what got things confused between the
tools to get the action done.
(removing some lines of output to make it shorter/clearer)
# aptitude install netris:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
netris:i386
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/37.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package netris:i386.
...
Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_i386.deb ...
Unpacking netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
...
Setting up netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude purge netris
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
# aptitude remove netris
Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
# aptitude remove netris:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris:i386
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be freed.
...
Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude purge netris
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
# aptitude purge netris:i386
Package netris:i386 is not installed, so it will not be removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris:i386{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
...
Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
Purging configuration files for netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
Otherwise, with the "main" arch, I cannot reproduce this with aptitude
0.7.1-1:
# aptitude install netris
The following NEW packages will be installed:
netris
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/42.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 98.3 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package netris.
...
Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking netris (0.52-9) ...
...
Setting up netris (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude remove netris
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 98.3 kB will be freed.
...
Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
# dpkg -l netris | grep netris
rc netris 0.52-9 amd64 free, networked version of T*tris
# aptitude purge netris
Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
...
Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
Purging configuration files for netris (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude purge netris
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
# dpkg -l netris | grep netris
dpkg-query: no packages found matching netris
Same but with "aptitude purge ~c" after netris "aptitude removed":
# aptitude purge ~c
Package netris is not installed, so it will not be removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
...
Removing netris (0.52-9) ...
Purging configuration files for netris (0.52-9) ...
Again "aptitude purge ~c", but package being netris:i386:
# aptitude install netris:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
netris:i386
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/37.9 kB of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package netris:i386.
...
Preparing to unpack .../netris_0.52-9_i386.deb ...
Unpacking netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
...
Setting up netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude remove netris:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris:i386
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 135 kB will be freed.
...
Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
# aptitude purge ~c
Package netris:i386 is not installed, so it will not be removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netris:i386{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 265 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
...
Removing netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
Purging configuration files for netris:i386 (0.52-9) ...
So I am not sure about what was wrong at the time, but I think that this
bug is not present anymore.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
