On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:32:53PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > > When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages. > > Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local > > packages? > > It means that these packages are listed in the dpkg status database, > but not in the available database. It is usually caused by packages > being removed from the Packages file in the debian archive. If you > build your own kernel-image.deb and install it, it will also be listed > as obsolete/local, because your homebuilt deb is not known to the debian > archive Packages file.
I'm sorry, that was not a complete answer to your original question. Any packages that you did not build yourself can probably safely be removed. Cheers, Joost
