Re: reinstalling conffiles

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

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 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).

I don't understand why dpkg didn't prompt me for conffile which was
changed. It was my previous example. Where is the problem? Does it work
only for upgrade?

> It should be possible write a script that does this.

I.e. there is no need to backup the conffiles which could be restored from
distribution.

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