Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > I was asking for real examples in order to discuss how the case of
> > bind and db.root is *not* a member of that set and how there may be a
> > genuine problem with the handling of installing over missing
> > configuration files.
> 
> Maybe db.root just shouldn't be a conffile, that's all.

{Gesturing} That's what I'm saying. 

> 
> > As far as I can tell there is no way to pass --force-confmiss to dpkg
> > when using apt-get.  Perhaps this is the only real omission.  
> 
> Sure there is: it's something like -o DPkg::Options=--force-confmiss.

OK.  You got me.  Is there any hope that's you'll at least cede that
that's not as straightforward as we *could* be?

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> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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