Re: How to restore original conffiles?

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Henning Makholm wrote:
> The short story: How do I tell dpkg to re-install the conffiles in a
> package, overwriting any changes I've made myself?

Purge and re-install the package.

> I could not find any switches to tell dpkg that I *want* to lose my
> changes to this or that conffile, so eventually I ended up purging
> the whole package (use the --force!) and installing it anew.
> 
> Surely that cannot be the only way to deal with such a situation? What
> have I missed - apart from backing up the file in question before
> hacking on it, but the original *was* there on the cdrom, right?

You can also extract the file from the deb with dpkg-deb -x and install it
manually, but that's the only other way I know of. Unless you have
.dpkg-orig files..

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