On 13 May 2013 12:24, Daniel Hartwig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > On 10 May 2013 09:04, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Package: aptitude >> Version: 0.6.9.1-1 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> The man page should note that reinstall doesn't fix missing files... >> # mv /etc/apache2/conf-available/php5-cgi.conf >> # aptitude reinstall php5-cgi >> # ls ... not found > > That is a conffile. It will be recreated if you purge and then > install, however reinstall does not work like that (more like remove > then install; or upgrade) as otherwise a reinstall will lose user > data. >
So I will also check that reinstall does the same as an upgrade in this case. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
