also sprach Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> [2006.01.08.0434 +0100]:
> Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging
> and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of
> the package and replace it manually.
Sure, both these work. My question is more of an academic nature.
You can pass options to APT with -o. You can tell APT the options
to use when calling dpkg. So then I simply wonder why it doesn't
work to pass APT the option to tell dpkg to replace missing
configuration files with --force-confmiss.
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