Bug#4950: dpkg needs a way to install missing conffiles
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.3
Sometimes you want dpkg to install missing conffiles. That is, dpkg
makes no mention of a conffile if it isn't on the system and there is
no way to force it drop a new one short of dpkg-deb -x and then moving it
over.
I recently had a nasty system crash where I lost my motherboard, as well
as my disc containing my root and /usr partitions. I was able to
recover much of my system but there was an "interesting" flaw in the BRU
backup script and so rather old files weren't on the tape.
Since /var wasn't destroyed, dpkg thought I had many packages installed
that I didn't. This wasn't much of a problem, I was able to write a
perl script that told me what packages didn't have files on the system
and purge and re-install them (to get conffiles). Unfortunately, you
don't want to do this with essential packages and therefore you have to
determine they are missing; extract out the files with dpkg-deb -x and
then move them into place.
Darren
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