On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:36:30PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-08 21:03]: > > This behaviour is managed by dpkg, and apt does not override it. You are > > correct that by default, dpkg does not do anything about a missing > > configuration file (this is considered a configuration change by the > > administrator, and preserved). You can override that with --force-confmiss > > (a dpkg option, not an apt option). > > BTW, this may be a stupid question, but is there a way to tell apt to > pass some options to dpkg? I needed this the other day and couldn't > easily find it.
Yes, it's Tools::DPkg::Options or something like that. It'll be in apt.conf(5) or the example configurations. -- - mdz
