Re: Installing missing conffiles (was Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??)
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> > To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the
> > "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore
> > missing configuration files, but not overwrite changed ones. If some
> > configuration files were damaged, you can use "--force-confnew" to
> > unpack all configuration files; your old files can be found with a
> > ".dpkg-old" suffix then.
>
> This is I guess, an extended misconception, --force-confmiss will only
> install missing conffiles if they are missing AND the conffile changes
> in the new package relative to the one installed (as documented in the
> man page).
>
> What you probably want is --force-confask --force-confmiss.
Please document this as an example in the manpage?
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Henrique Holschuh
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