Hi, On Thu, 05 May 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: > According to my understanding of the documentation, > /etc/init.d/apache2 should be reverted to its original form in the > package, per the --force-confnew flag, but this does not happen. It > seems unlikely that this is a bug, and it seems more likely I am > misunderstanding the documentation and not using the right command, > so I'm writing to ask for clarification. Please CC me on any reply.
You are misunderstanding the doc indeed, and you should have asked on [email protected], not here. The flag only matters when the package tries to install a new version of the configuration file, but here you're re-installing the same package and thus there's no new version of the config file compared to the previous installation. You also need --force-confask to force dpkg to re-try installing the file. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
