Re: reinstalling conffiles
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:40:17PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > But it didn't prompt when I changed conffile and then ran `apt-get
> > > --reinstall install package'. What is wrong?
> >
> > Pay attention to what I said. It only prompts when the original conffile
> > of the package you have installed differs from the original that you are
> > about to install.
>
> So dpkg can't restore or even check which conffiles was modified.
> It might be helpful feature.
It can, it just doesn't report it to the user unless the package
conffile changes (since that's the only time it really matters).
It should be possible write a script that does this.
Ben
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