"Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:

> well, i hope any follow-ups of you in this thread won't take as long.
> ;-)

Not a chance with this group. ;-)

> i have no experience with emptying /var/log/removed_*, but a quick
> examination of the package tools doesn't reveal anything. pkgtool
> itself calls the files created there 'logfiles', and the other
> programs don't seem to read anything from them. installpkg will create
> the directories if they don't exist, and removepkg writes to them, but
> that's it. i didn't find any other reference to them in the other
> programs.

Me neither. I looked at the Package Utilities section of Slackbook, but
the closest I came was the reference to /var/adm/removed_packages.
Google was no help at all. The fact that no other programs read
anything from them kinda makes them orphans, doesn't it?

> no, certainly not. 'removepkg -preserve' only works when you actually
> remove a package. i.e., you cannot create a copy of the package's
> contents in /tmp after you've deleted it.

From the Book (pasted from the site):

"-preserve The package is removed, but copied to the preserved packages
directory at the same time."

I'm gonna try it just once to satisfy my curiosity. It mentions a
directory I don't have on my system (yet).

> so just go ahead and delete them.

Thanks for the help. I will.

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