Re: reinstalling conffiles
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 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?
It'll prompt if you've changed the conffile *and* the conffile has
changed in the package since the last version of that package. If only
one of those has happened, it'll favour whichever version changed.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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