Bug#149497: marked as done (dpkg: dpkg.cfg: --force-overwrite: not enabled on upgrade)
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From: Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>
Subject: dpkg: dpkg.cfg: --force-overwrite: not enabled on upgrade
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Hi,
According to the "changelog.Debian.gz" file,
* Enable --force-overwrite by default in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
this was _not_ done during the upgrade. Also, the dpkg man page
does not mark "force-overwrite" as the default, I find this to be
confusing in light of the above changelog item.
Here are the diffs from my dpkg.cfg file against the last conffile
version of this dpkg.cfg,
===================================================================
RCS file: /etc/dpkg/RCS/dpkg.cfg,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -b -d -p -t -u -r1.1 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
--- /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg 2001-11-09 11:14:12-05 1.1
+++ /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg 2000-08-25 09:45:00-04
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg - see dpkg(8) for details.
+#
# dpkg configuration file
#
# This file can contain default options for dpkg. All commandline
@@ -5,3 +7,10 @@
# the option, seperated by whitespace and/or an `=' sign.
#
no-debsig
+
+# Always install the old version of a modified conffile without prompting.
+#
+force-confold
+
+#
+# /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg - end of file.
Don't be confused by the mtime of the working dpkg.cfg file, I
deliberately do this so that only the RCS file gets saved by my
backup scripts.
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>
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ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:39:48 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>, 149497-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#149497: dpkg: dpkg.cfg: --force-overwrite: not enabled on upgrade
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Previously Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> According to the "changelog.Debian.gz" file,
>
> * Enable --force-overwrite by default in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
>
> this was _not_ done during the upgrade.
That was done on purpose. New installs will have force-overwrite enabled
by default. People who were using testing or unstable know what they are
doing and will keep their existing default to have force-overwrite
disabled (ie nothing changes for them).
> Also, the dpkg man page does not mark "force-overwrite" as the
> default, I find this to be confusing in light of the above changelog
> item.
dpkg itself does not have force-overwrite enabled, it is merely the
configuration file that is installed initially that changes that
setting.
Wichert.
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