-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 29 Sep 1999, Jonas Steverud wrote:
> When I start dselect I get this: > > --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- > ----- Obsolete/local Standard packages ----- > ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section libs ------- > *** Std libs liblockfile0 0.1-6 <none> > ----- Obsolete/local Optional packages ----- > ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section base ------- > *== Opt base kernel-image 2.0.35-3 <none> > ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs ------- > *** Opt libs libjpegg6a 6a-12 <none> > ----- Obsolete/local Extra packages ----- > ------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section libs ------- > *** Xtr libs clanlib0-dis 0.1.16-2 <none> "Obsolete/local" means that a deb is installed that's not on any of the sources in your apt sources.list (or equivalent) > 1. Can I safely purge kernel-image? I have a custom-built kernel > 2.2.10. (Using kernel-package or whatever the program is.) Go for it. > 2. Can I purge the other files or are they bound to turn up in the > (near?) future? The reason I ask is I have found other packages to > become obsolete and then turn up after a couple of weeks. (My mind > might have been tampered with though.) Sometimes the mirror maintainers just misadjust something, and a package gets lost. Other times, a package is removed from the distribution for being obsolete. Just recently i removed liblockfile0 from my own system when the the final dependancy on it was removed. IIRC it has been replaced with liblockfile1 clanlib0-display-whateveritis i removed a long time ago, since i never used that display target. YMMV. xloadimage still depends on libjpegg6a, so i'm keeping that one on my system for the moment. Hopefully soon the dependancy is fixed. > 3. Dselect says that fonty is broken. One of the files > (/etc/init.d/fonty) is missing on my system (I didn't want it to be > ran so I removed it) and now dpkg can't install and configure it > properly. (It was some time since I installed it so I don't > remember the exact errormessage.) How can I repair the package > and/or tell dpkg the package is not broken? Edit the status-file? > (Which says "Status: hold ok half-configured".) Without the exact error message, i don't know what advice to give... Others surely have more experience with this than i. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/KRSb7M/9WKZLW5AQFrBwQAoH2pcwH8AL2R07w5SuhszMJYieS+Zlt2 na2OC9DQpLrBG09FhD2EAYCio6rC28iHGtVrR/ExJOQmcP3NnI99HzKteCoH/lqz CiFWs+SuRNrjWAIKPt1O3wA8D8RABLtDhX+56hpz0nK+MdhxZjpmT/XTKRb7fF1h z5ph3G6fIco= =2xYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
