On 2009-12-05, Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> wrote: > Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >> So the call of ucf looks something like that: >> >> if which ucf >/dev/null; then >> ucf --purge /etc/foo.conf >> fi > > no, the correct one is: > > if which ucf >/dev/null; then > $whatever_ucf_command /etc/foo.conf > else > rm -f /etc/foo.conf > fi >
-p, --purge Removes all vestiges of the file from the state hashfile. [...] Note: ucf does not actually touch the file on disk in this operation, so any file removals are still the responsibility of the calling package. See man ucf. Kind regards, Philipp kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org