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?
Normally dpkg renames overwritten conffiles into conffile.dpkg-old
and not installed conffiles into conffile.dpkg-dist. However I'm not
sure if it also does this when it has accepted that the user had modified
the configuration file.
Please try:
cd /
dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb |tar xf etc/where/the/conffile/is
Even more secure, unpack the .deb file somewhere else and copy the
conffile:
mkdir /tmp/foo
dpkg -x foo.deb /tmp/foo
Regards,
Joey
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