Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:36:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> That applies to non-Debian repositories but not to PPAs that's >>> probably why Ubunical created "apt-add-repository" with which you can >>> add any repository including PPAs and VirtualBox to

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >>> >>> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configura

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Mark Blakeney wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. > > About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't > like it so immediately just did a "ppa-purge"

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:52:47 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a sim

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:45:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed > >> to remove non official versions of

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >> >> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the >> lesser repositories available + basic pinning

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:06 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed >> to remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones >> available in Debian repositori

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Blakeney
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't like it so immediately just did a "ppa-purge" on that ppa which proceeded to remove *every* X/gui/video based pa

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mar 12, 12:31:11, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed > from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > > Has anyone ever wri

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: > For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to > remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones > available in Debian repositories. Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command "rm" in

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:13:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages > installed from that PPA to the versions available in the official

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any p

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:34 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: (...) >>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >> >> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the >> lesser repositorie

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages >>> installed from

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs from sources.list, but also au

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed >> from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > >

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>> >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any pa

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed >> from that PPA to the versions availa

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I don't know the ""ppa-purge" script. A good tool to identify from which source installed packages are coming seems to me "apt-get-versions". Piping the output to a grep command similar to the following for a mixed (from testing, unstable, and experimental) system $ apt-show-versions | grep -Ev '/

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed > from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. > > Has anyone ever written

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages installed > from that PPA to the versions available in the official archives. The only idea scares me :-