Control: reassign -1 ucf Control: retitle -1 ucf: Use DPKG_FORCE to handle dpkg --force-* options
On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 22:39:10 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > severity 925375 wishlist > retitle 925375 dpkg could set confnew/confold env variables for ucf > Yes, dpkg and ucf are independent, and they usually operate on > different files. dpkg does not take any action specificallyy witgh ucf > in mind, that is the domain of the maintainer scripts installed by > individual packages. Perhaps the communication might be better > > As for UCF_FORCE_CONFFNEW, there is a treadeoff betweem just > replacing the configuration file versus leaving random files all over > /etc; the default action is to not clutter. As you have > discovcered. RETAIN_OLD=YES allows the user to override that choice. So, dpkg has supported setting a DPKG_FORCE environment variable since 1.19.5, one of the reasons was precisely having ucf in mind. :) The exact semantics are documented in dpkg(1). Thanks, Guillem
