Re: reinstalling conffiles

[Piotr Roszatycki <Piotr_Roszatycki@netia.net.pl>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> > conffiles? Or maybe just to check which conffiles was modified? `dpkg -s
> > package' only displays conffile with its MD5 sum.
>
> dpkg --force-help
>
> There are several --force-* options for conffiles, maybe one fits your
> needs. To be honest, dpkg always prompts for modified conffiles, when
> the new one is different than the original. It wont prompt when there is
> no change in the original package. Might be a nice --force option to
> always overwrite the conffiles with the one in the package. File a
> wishlist bug.

But it didn't prompt when I changed conffile and then ran `apt-get
--reinstall install package'. What is wrong?

root@ginger:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.1.0-9_all.deb
(Reading database ... 104688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xfree86-common 4.1.0-9 (using .../xfree86-common_4.1.0-9_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ...
Setting up xfree86-common (4.1.0-9) ...

root@ginger:~# dpkg -s xfree86-common|grep 99xfree86-common_start /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start
da6461e3e340a3172369706840ac7eed
root@ginger:~# md5sum /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start
6e862bd671981edbde1fd2f6d02a72d0  /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start

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