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# du /etc/xemacs20/ > 1 /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d > 2 /etc/xemacs20 Could you try "dpkg -S /etc/xemacs/site-start.d"? It will tell you to which package this file belongsa (if it is installed). > Is there a way to see what files are in my system that do not belong > to any installed package? It would probably be a script that would > inspect the installed packages and compare with the hd. Yes! A new utility came up recently. It is called "cruft" and available in slink, the new Debian unstable (probably ;). Check the list archiv of debian-devel, please. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
