Henning Makholm wrote: > The short story: How do I tell dpkg to re-install the conffiles in a > package, overwriting any changes I've made myself?
Purge and re-install the package. > I could not find any switches to tell dpkg that I *want* to lose my > changes to this or that conffile, so eventually I ended up purging > the whole package (use the --force!) and installing it anew. > > Surely that cannot be the only way to deal with such a situation? What > have I missed - apart from backing up the file in question before > hacking on it, but the original *was* there on the cdrom, right? You can also extract the file from the deb with dpkg-deb -x and install it manually, but that's the only other way I know of. Unless you have .dpkg-orig files.. -- see shy jo
