Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joerg Plate writes: >> I guess I'll just delete them and just forget about it :^> > man symlinks I believe you mean "man symlink", and you are talking about: NOTES No checking of oldpath is done. Deleting the name referred to by a symlink will actually delete the file (

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
W Paul Mills writes: >> nr# ldconfig >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such >> file or directory), skipping >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or >> directory), skipping >> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (N

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > > I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing > > libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. > > > Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the m

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-19 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing > libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. > Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the moment, > and we hope to have the proper solution implemented for

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:18:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Since we're talking about leftovers, these messages are, AFAIK, due to > leftovers from some packages, and they are not directories. > > Can you tell me how to get rid of them? They appear in some "dpkg -i" > commands...

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: >> >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: >> >> >> >> $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d >> >>

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Normally, all directories that are not needed anymore are removed. > > In this special case, they are not. > > Marcus > "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" ... but about a dozen bug reports are open against dpkg for this particular feature at the moment, and I hope one da

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: > >> > >> $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d > >> dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d no

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: >> >> $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d >> dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. >> >> Note, though, that: >> >> 1) this is a directory, and not a file! >> 2

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d > dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. > > Note, though, that: > > 1) this is a directory, and not a file! > 2) I already purged xemacs* ! Sure. T

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> >> Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version >> leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an >> example, after purging all the xemacs packages: >

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version > leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an > example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh. This shouldn't happen... >

finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: nr# dpkg -l xemacs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-confi