Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Re: How can I remove sets installed by sysupgrade?

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:48:19PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:27:23PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> | > By having each set install a specific file in a well-known location.
> | > Before sysupgrade I wrote my own script to upgrade machines, this uses
> | > /var/db/sets/{base,comp,game,man,xbase,xfont,xserve,xshare} to
> | > determine what has been installed and upgrade only those sets.
> |
> | We actually know what file belongs to which set.
> | see /usr/lib/locate/src.db
>
> This doesn't list files from x-sets.

... there's obviously the corresponding database for x in xbase, duh

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