Pacman and /etc directories

Philip J. Fry · 2008-06-02 12:00:40

Hi everybody, I'm a new member of this forum, coming from Italy.

I have a question: why pacman -Rns doesn't remove also the config files and the directories in /etc? For example, i tried pacman -Rns samba to remove samba, but after that, the directory /etc/samba and the configuration files were still there. Why? I think it's a very boring thing, because i dont want to keep old config files, maybe with wrong configurations.

Thanks.

bender02 · 2008-06-02 15:07:05

If samba (or you) created some files in /etc/samba, they are not associated to the samba package as pacman sees it (since they were not included in the original samba package). So you have to delete them manually.

Philip J. Fry · 2008-06-02 15:08:32

I didnt know this.
So, I should try rm /etc/samba?

bender02 · 2008-06-02 15:10:01

Yes (if you don't want to keep those config files; and you need to do is as root).

Allan · 2008-06-02 15:10:42

First check that nothing owns those files with "pacman -Qo <full file path>". If nothing owns them, then they are probably leftovers and safe to remove.

bender02 · 2008-06-02 15:14:26

Allan wrote:

First check that nothing owns those files with "pacman -Qo <full file path>". If nothing owns them, then they are probably leftovers and safe to remove.

Well, this is not a general rule for files in /etc - but in the directories named by removed packages, it applies fine

Philip J. Fry · 2008-06-02 15:20:07

bender02 wrote:

Yes (if you don't want to keep those config files; and you need to do is as root).

Yes, as root

rm -R /etc/samba

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#1 2008-06-02 12:00:40

Pacman and /etc directories

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Re: Pacman and /etc directories

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Re: Pacman and /etc directories

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#6 2008-06-02 15:14:26

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