On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > > There are several --force-* options for conffiles, maybe one fits your > > needs. To be honest, dpkg always prompts for modified conffiles, when > > the new one is different than the original. It wont prompt when there is > > no change in the original package. Might be a nice --force option to > > always overwrite the conffiles with the one in the package. File a > > wishlist bug. > > But it didn't prompt when I changed conffile and then ran `apt-get > --reinstall install package'. What is wrong?
It'll prompt if you've changed the conffile *and* the conffile has changed in the package since the last version of that package. If only one of those has happened, it'll favour whichever version changed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
