[H-GEN] rebuilding a machine

[Marco Grigull]

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On Sat, 10 May 2003 13:24:29 +1000
Sandra Milne <silne at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> I'm blowing away partitions on the new disk anyway, and wanted to 
> completely reinstall debian 3.0 as the current effort is a dist-upgrade 
> that's gotten a bit messy as ppl (read me) decided "hey this would be 
> kewl", installed it, then went "oh wait that wasn't want I wanted", 
> tried to remove it, and left various packages scattered around 
> half-installed and very messy. etc etc ad nauseum. long story shortened, 
> production b0xes are not for playing with. lesson learned, rebuild badly 
> needed.
> 

dpkg has a --purge option for blowing away related config files, Im not
sure if apt suppports it directly.  Someone may know an apt::config option
for this

Marco 

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