On Jo, 16 ian 20, 12:59:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > My concern here is that the files in question are under /etc which > means they may be marked as conffiles. Reinstalling a package whose > conffiles have gone missing will NOT restore the conffiles -- because > dpkg assumes the local sysadmin deleted them for a Good Reason. > > The workarounds for that are to purge and then reinstall, or to use > special apt/dpkg options to force missing conffiles to be reinstalled. > I'd have to look up how those options are spelled, because they're > long and weird. "Purge" is really easy to remember. That would be '--force-confmiss'. '--force-confask' might do it as well, the man page mentions it triggers in case a conffile has been "modified". Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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