On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:22:58 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:55:53AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:54:24 -0400 Geordie Birch wrote: > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 will allow you to reconfigure X, > > > but ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > will not re-detect the hardware; you must purge/reinstall > > > xserver-xfree86 to accomplish this. > > > > This prompted me to go look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/, and > > xserver-xfree86.config seems to have something to do with it. > > Unfortunately, it seems to be meant to be run by other utilities, > > not directly by the user. > > dpkg-reconfigure, above, is one of the utilities in question.
I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and server reconfiguration. Doesn't it retread the same steps as the package postinstall scripts? Shouldn't it? Going through the purge/install charade seems like a very poor solution. The dpkg-reconfigure man page indicates that it runs with sane defaults (priority low, both seen and unseen questions). So why wouldn't a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' be able to do the same as the purge/install? If this is true (haven't checked it myself), perhaps a bug (normal?) should be filed against the xserver-xfree86 package. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
