[vox-tech] Removing a package without deleteing the package's files...

[R. Douglas Barbieri]

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Is there some way to remove a package from package control without actually=
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removing the installed files from the filesystem?

I have a situation where I had a package ("gallery") installed via apt-get,=
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then my admin partner installed the linux package from a source tarball. A=
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package vulernability for "gallery" was annouced, so I upgraded the package=
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to the new woody package, and trounced over the source package (oops).

I want to pull "gallery" out of the apt system, but I don't want it to touc=
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the existing files until we can reinstall the program from the source=20
installer. So, I'd like a way to "apt-get remove" or "dpkg -r" without=20
actually touching the installed files.

By the way--we don't want to install using a backport from unstable because=
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there are custom patches involved. We just want to build the thing from=20
source and keep it entirely out of apt-get's control.

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R. Douglas Barbieri
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