On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:12:22 +0100 Ola Lundqvist <o...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Karl > > As far as I know there is no man database as you describe it. > Manual pages are simply installed to /usr/share/man/man?/<name>.?.gz > > But maybe things have changed since I built this package, but I can > not find anything in the Debian policy handbook about this. > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html > > Are you sure about your statement? Yes. I'm also sure about the result (removing this package leaves traces of its man page). note the 'Processing triggers for man-db' right near the very end of this paste. I suspect you're missing a trigger or some configuration which should tell it to remove the man page. kk 21:57:08 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ apt-cache search dpsyco-cfengine dpsyco-cfengine - Automate applying of cfengine configs 21:57:16 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ sudo apt-get install dpsyco-cfengine [sudo] password for kgoetz: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: [...] Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: cfengine2 dpsyco-lib The following NEW packages will be installed: cfengine2 dpsyco-cfengine dpsyco-lib 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 95 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/2,584 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,263 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package cfengine2. (Reading database ... 149635 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cfengine2 (from .../cfengine2_2.2.10-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dpsyco-lib. Unpacking dpsyco-lib (from .../dpsyco-lib_1.0.36_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dpsyco-cfengine. Unpacking dpsyco-cfengine (from .../dpsyco-cfengine_1.0.36_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Setting up cfengine2 (2.2.10-2) ... Starting cfengine2:Setting up dpsyco-lib (1.0.36) ... Updates /etc/adduser.conf and sets LAST_SYSTEM_UID=499. Setting up dpsyco-cfengine (1.0.36) ... Committing to: /etc/ modified .etckeeper modified adduser.conf [...] Committed revision 69. 21:57:43 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ apt-get --purge remove cfengine2 dpsyco-cfengine dpsyco-lib E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? 21:57:49 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ sudo apt-get --purge remove cfengine2 dpsyco-cfengine dpsyco-lib Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: [...] Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: cfengine2* dpsyco-cfengine* dpsyco-lib* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 95 not upgraded. After this operation, 6,263 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 149725 files and directories currently installed.) Removing dpsyco-cfengine ... Removing cfengine2 ... Stopping cfengine2:. Purging configuration files for cfengine2 ... Removing dpsyco-lib ... Purging configuration files for dpsyco-lib ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Committing to: /etc/ modified .etckeeper [...] Committed revision 70. 21:57:58 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ apropos update-dpsyco-cfengine update-dpsyco-cfengine (1) - (unknown subject) 21:58:17 kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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