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and subject line Re: Bug#651430: dpkg: silence --force-confmiss warning
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regarding dpkg: silence --force-confmiss warning
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.11
Severity: wishlist
When dpkg is forced to re-create deleted conffiles with the
--force-confmiss option, it prints the following warning for each
missing conffile:
Configuration file `%s', does not exist on system.
Installing new config file as you requested.
Since we are managing our configuration files with a custom script, we
have configured dpkg on all our servers to use --force-confmiss by
default - we want dpkg to always give us the package manager defaults,
and our script then takes care of modifications and deletions. The
warning message is pretty annoying in this configuration - e.g. when we
install acpi-support, we get over 500 lines of warnings that only
obscure the important messages.
A switch to disable this warning would therefore be very nice.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 20:50:57 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2011, Martin von Wittich wrote:
> > Since we are managing our configuration files with a custom script, we
> > have configured dpkg on all our servers to use --force-confmiss by
> > default - we want dpkg to always give us the package manager defaults,
> > and our script then takes care of modifications and deletions. The
> > warning message is pretty annoying in this configuration - e.g. when we
> > install acpi-support, we get over 500 lines of warnings that only
> > obscure the important messages.
> >
> > A switch to disable this warning would therefore be very nice.
>
> This looks like a useless option to me. Your use case is rather
> odd.
>
> Why are you removing the configurations files prior to running to dpkg?
>
> If you already have your own custom script to manage configuration files,
> you can certainly find a way to handle everything that doesn't involve
> having to remove all the configuration files, reinstall them with dpkg,
> removing/changing some again.
I'm inclined to agree, thus I'm just going to close this request.
Thanks,
Guillem
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