Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?
- From: Darac Marjal <mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:56:44 +0000
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Drew Engelbrecht wrote:
I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying
around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative)
effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by packages in lenny,
but would not be installed in a fresh installation of squeeze. Despite
unmodified configuration files getting replaced by newer ones when
upgrading, it seems that if they don't belong to the same package in
squeeze as in lenny, then they are not removed... even though that file
may be unmodified from the original (and now useless or even harmful.)
You might take a look at cruft:
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/
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