On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:23:14PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > This is the workaround needed to reset the configuration of some > > debian packages who need them. There are also other workarounds > > I agree. It would be nice to have > > dpkg-deb --extract foo.deb / /etc > > to extract the /etc directory from a package and > > dpkg-deb --conffiles foo.deb | xargs dpkg-deb --extract foo.deb / > > or maybe > > dpkg-deb --extract foo.deb / --conffiles > > to extract all files marked as conffile. alternatively, if there were some progress on the conffile "database" handling code, the pristine version of the package's conffile would be already sitting on the fs and/or available to a helper program... sean
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