Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were > > moved, upgraded, removed. > > > > How

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Kushal Kumaran([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> <> > >> If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > >> will tell you: > >> grep -B1 "S

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never clea

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > > upgraded, remove

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mike McClain wrote: [...] > > If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > will tell you: > grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \ > | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2 > and > for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done > will cl

re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? If these left

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:49:18PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? > I don't kn

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:26 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > The 'symlinks' package can do a search-and-destroy of dangling symlinks > for you. The 'cruft' package can identify missing alternatives. Thanks. > Liam Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via se

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got > > set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs > > w

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently?

Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread David Baron
/etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, upgraded, removed. How does one clean up this mess conveniently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Cleaning up alternatives

2007-01-30 Thread Thilo Six
David Baron wrote the following on 30.01.2007 17:38: > My /etc/alternatives directory is chock full of dangling symlinks. > > Is there any neat way of servicing this or must I manually rm each one? $ man update-alternatives HTH Thilo -- gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Cleaning up alternatives

2007-01-30 Thread David Baron
My /etc/alternatives directory is chock full of dangling symlinks. Is there any neat way of servicing this or must I manually rm each one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]