Bug#236468: marked as done (apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files)
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From: Michael Holzt <kju@debian.org>
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Subject: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.21
Severity: wishlist
Currently a "apt-get install <package> --reinstall" invocation will not
touch the configuration files, and does not ask when a configuration file
was changed or is missing.
So if by accident one deletes or wracks havoc one of his configuration
files, it is not possible to recover from this problem by reinstall. Only
current solution is to manually extract the configuration file in question
from the package archive - or downgrading and upgrading again. Both options
are not very comfortable for the user.
Please consider asking the user about changed/missing configuration files,
like an package upgrade would also do.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zeus 2.4.19 #2 Fri Dec 6 03:45:09 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages apt depends on:
hi libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>, 236468-done@bugs.debian.org,
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Subject: Re: Bug#236468: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files
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Previously Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> This behaviour is managed by dpkg, and apt does not override it. You are
> correct that by default, dpkg does not do anything about a missing
> configuration file (this is considered a configuration change by the
> administrator, and preserved). You can override that with --force-confmiss
> (a dpkg option, not an apt option).
So indeed dpkg has already supported this for some time. This can be
combined with a -o option to apt-get to call dpkg with --force-confmiss
to get the behaviour the bugreporter wants.
Wichert.
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