Hi! On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 19:58:01 +0200, Daniel Bock wrote: > 2. Request replacements from dpkg. > sudo dpkg -i --force-confmiss /path/to/samba-common.deb > > This tells dpkg to replace missing configuration files with those > from the .deb. You might find the original package .deb in > /var/cache/apt/archives, or you can use a fresh copy of the same > version from your distribution's repositories. > > dpkg -i --force-confnew foo.deb > > That flag only forces dpkg to overwrite the config file if it would > otherwise have asked for permission to do so. It does not make it > magically recreate pristine config files from the package.
> It seems to be an important feature and I propose you to implement > this option to magically make the configuration of an package > pristine. Come on, everybody will be happy about such feature. I might have missed something but isn't: $ dpkg --force-confmiss --force-confnew -i foo.deb what you are looking for (given the patch you've sent)? (Regardless of the prospective dpkg-conffile support etc). regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
