Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Theodore Tso wrote:
>...
> If you want to fix the problem about people not knowing about dpkg,
> then someone needs to write a high-level document which explains all
> of the different layers and byways and programs and historical
> accidents (which is why dpkg-reconfigure isn't dpkg --reconfigure, so
> I understand) which are available in Debian, and how they interact,
>...
The name is a bit misleading: dpkg-reconfigure isn't part of dpkg but part
of debconf - and it does only reconfigure packages that use debconf (so it
can't reconfigure e.g. exim...). dpkg itself doesn't know anything about
debconf.
> - Ted
cu
Adrian
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