On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:00:40 +0100, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: >> To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the >> "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore >> missing configuration files, but not overwrite changed ones. If some >> configuration files were damaged, you can use "--force-confnew" to >> unpack all configuration files; your old files can be found with a >> ".dpkg-old" suffix then. > >A problem with essential and important packages is that you can only reinstall >them. So apt-get install --reinstall or dpkg -i <path_to_deb> only reinstalls >the package, not the conffiles. Now I know how to get the conffiles back, but >tracing which packages has them is hard: Any ideas?
dpkg --force-confmiss --install <path_to_deb>, as suggested by Simon, didn't work >Anyway, I think the default behaviour of dpkg is wrong: If you have >intentionally or by accident removed some conffiles, they should be installed >by >default with a reinstall. I'll file a serious bug on dpkg for it. It would be a bug in dpkg to override the admin's conscious decision to remove a conffile by reinstalling it. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
