Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 10:47:26 H.S. wrote:
On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot:
$> ls -1 /boot/*trunk*
/boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.bak
/boot/System.map-2.6.32-trunk-686
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Since they are stale files, not associated with any installed package,
why not simply delete the files?
Yes, that is one option. But how do I make sure I got all the stale
files? If a package is known by apt, I can use "dpkg -L <package name"
to see which files are installed and where. In this case, however, dpkg
cannot tell me that.

cruft can.

Package: cruft
State: not installed
Version: 0.9.12
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Uncompressed Size: 1,348k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), file
Description: Find any cruft built up on your system
cruft is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is;
or for anything that should be there, but isn't. It bases most of its results on dpkg's database, as well as a list of `extra files' that
can appear during the lifetime of various packages. cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance
is appreciated.
Homepage: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/cruft/

So I installed cruft and it produced a 24MB report. I don't even know how to look at that. And what means '---- missing USERS ----'?

Hugo


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