Re: Feature request: Reset configuration

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:42:44 +0200, Daniel Bock wrote:
> Am 02.07.2010 13:43, schrieb Guillem Jover:
> > I might have missed something but isn't:
> >
> >   $ dpkg --force-confmiss --force-confnew -i foo.deb
> >
> > what you are looking for (given the patch you've sent)?
> >
> > (Regardless of the prospective dpkg-conffile support etc).

> No, it's definitely not.
> 
> --force-confmiss --force-confnew
> 
> are just for file conflicts, which are not handled automatically.
> 
> Edit your
> 
> /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
> 
> and try your command. It won't be replaced.

Ah! Ok, so it seems I missread your mail. Yes, this was already filed
as bug #102609, for which Henning Makholm had provided a really simple
patch, that I've now merged (after little shoehorning into the current
code). It adds a new --force-confask, which can optionally be combined
with either --force-confnew and --force-confmiss:

  <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=bd0ae9a4>

And the new functional test for it:

  <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/pkg-tests.git;a=commitdiff;h=e980657b>

regards,
guillem