in-line :- 2012/2/28 Georgiy Treyvus <georgiytrey...@gmail.com>: > @Shirish: > Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't quite understand what you're trying to > say here. I realize English is not your native language but can you explain > your point more clearly?
to put it very simply, I do not know of a way to figure out where the .conf file after a package is removed. This is what I was trying to show/figure out. Till as a user its not known where the .conf file is (is it in .config/ or /etc or somewhere else altogether) its not easy for the user (for e.g. me) to figure out whether that .conf file does have value or I should simply get rid of it. The dpkg -L was for showing that no info. is given for that (no info. after removing libgs8) although from what has been said/shared there are conf file present somewhere. $ dpkg -L libgs8 Package `libgs8' does not contain any files (!) The 'aptitude purge $packagename' example I used was to show that specific line which said it is removing the conffile D000001: removal_bulk purging? foundpostrm=1 Purging configuration files for libgs8 ... D000001: removal_bulk purge done, removing list `/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgs8.list' See the second line ' Purging configuration files for libgs8' . My issue is where these configuration files are, is not known to the user and unless he knows at least where the configuration files are how is s/he going to take a call. I do know that some packages have their configuration files in /etc/ such as say dpkg /etc/dpkg$ ls dpkg.cfg dpkg.cfg.d dpkg.cfg.original origins shlibs.default shlibs.override This is possible to know by the listing of 'dpkg -L dpkg' as it does show the location of the configuration file but libgs8 does not. Similarly I have seen quite a few other packages which do not seem to have this information. At the very end I just have one question :- a. Is there a way to know/figure out where the configuration files of a given package are ? Maybe its different for binary packages and/or libraries , if so does somebody know how one can reliably find out ? Unless the above info. is not there, its really hard (at least for me) to even begin to ascertain whether doing a purge or not is good in any case at all. @ Georgiy Treyvus I do hope I was clear this time around. If not, please lemme know and I would try again. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
