Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
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On Feb 6, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Martin Costabel wrote:
Robert T Wyatt wrote:
By default, reinstall does not touch config files. Config files are
those mentioned in the corresponding field in the package
description. If you look at the apache2-ssl.info, you will see the
above files listed in the ConfFiles field.
Even removing a package first and then installing leaves the config
files untouched (or empty as in your case). In principle, if dpkg
detects that a config file has been modified, it should ask you what
to do about it, but apparently it doesn't do this in your case. You
have to "purge" a package, either with the fink command or with
dpkg, in order to remove config files. A subsequent install brings
the default config files back. "dpkg -i --force-confnew" should do
the reinstallation without purging first.
Boy was I hoping that would work!
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-confnew apache2-ssl-common
Password:
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing apache2-ssl-common (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
apache2-ssl-common
Of course, dpkg needs to be given the path to the deb, not just a name.
hmmm, yes of course it would... oops!
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