Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

[Scott Barker <scott@mostlylinux.ab.ca>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 11:02:58AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Why would you install the package (which presumably includes
> configuration) and then immediately reconfigure it?

You upgrade a package, and it gets installed with your previous configuration,
and you want to change that configuration. dpkg --configure simply re-runs the
postinstall script, which (assuming debconf was used) would simply reconfigure
using the previous configuration again.

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