On 2016-11-30 14:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +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.
>
> This is I guess, an extended misconception, --force-confmiss will only
> install missing conffiles if they are missing AND the conffile changes
> in the new package relative to the one installed (as documented in the
> man page).
Really? This is not what I see here.
,----
| # rm /etc/skel/.profile
| # dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.4-2_i386.deb
| (Reading database ... 13631 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to unpack .../archives/bash_4.4-2_i386.deb ...
| Unpacking bash (4.4-2) over (4.4-2) ...
| Setting up bash (4.4-2) ...
|
| Configuration file '/etc/skel/.profile', does not exist on system.
| Installing new config file as you requested.
| [...]
| # ls -l /etc/skel/.profile
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Nov 15 18:49 /etc/skel/.profile
`----
IIRC --force-confmiss has always installed missing conffiles without
asking, and it's much older than --force-confask.
Cheers,
Sven
