On 06/16/11 at 07:59pm, David Baron wrote:
> This file is full of cruft, stuff left over years ago starting with knoppix-3.
> Recent dpkg produce a lot of parse-errors from the file, though they do not
> effect anything.
>
> Is it possible to regenerate this file without all the cruft?

Yes, but it's quite tedious ime. Do you have a valid /var/lib/dpkg/status-old ?
It could save you some headaches.

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On 06/16/2011 12:59 PM, David Baron wrote:

This file is full of cruft, stuff left over years ago starting with knoppix-3.
Recent dpkg produce a lot of parse-errors from the file, though they do not
effect anything.

Is it possible to regenerate this file without all the cruft?



You might want to install the grep-status package.

To find packages installed and then removed but not purged:

grep-status -F Status 'deinstall ok config-files' -ns Package

Wayne


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On 06/16/11 at 02:13pm, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 06/16/2011 12:59 PM, David Baron wrote:
> >This file is full of cruft, stuff left over years ago starting with knoppix-3.
> >Recent dpkg produce a lot of parse-errors from the file, though they do not
> >effect anything.
> >
> >Is it possible to regenerate this file without all the cruft?
> >
>
> You might want to install the grep-status package.
>
> To find packages installed and then removed but not purged:
>
> grep-status -F Status 'deinstall ok config-files' -ns Package

OT, but an easier way to do this is dpkg -l | grep ^rc

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On Vi, 17 iun 11, 00:38:02, William Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > To find packages installed and then removed but not purged:
> >
> > grep-status -F Status 'deinstall ok config-files' -ns Package
>
> OT, but an easier way to do this is dpkg -l | grep ^rc

# aptitude search ~c # inspect the list
# aptitude purge ~c # get rid of them

Regards,
Andrei
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