Re: ObsoleteConffilesOfInstalledPackages

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht
Great script! It took only about several minutes to run and the output was a lot shorter than I expected. I've attached my results if anyone is interested. (My system was upgraded from lenny to squeeze about a month ago.) Thanks, -Andrew 6.0 capplets-data 1:2.30.1-2 /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modu

Re: ObsoleteConffilesOfInstalledPackages

2011-01-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mike Bird wrote: > Some people have expressed interested in obsolete config files > associated with currently installed packages. [...] Correct behavior is to remove obsolete _unmodified_ conffiles, as Roger mentioned. Which of the conffiles mentioned below were modified? No way to know just ye

Re: ObsoleteConffilesOfInstalledPackages

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun January 16 2011 12:15:18 Roger Leigh wrote: > The main problem with this script is that all it does is spit out > the available information. It doesn't actually check if the user > modified one of the conffiles. An example is attached. Modifying > it to automatically purge "safe" packages

Re: ObsoleteConffilesOfInstalledPackages

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:52:34PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > Some people have expressed interested in obsolete config files > associated with currently installed packages. > > Here's a (slow) script for finding them, plus the merged results > of running the script on a dozen servers and workstatio