Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > Actually, the increase is impressive > I changed to one of the listed mirrors.
Oh good. > >Right. You removed it. It is a conffile. Therefore the system > >respects your changes to that file. Including removing it. The > >system views removing a conffile as an intended change from the admin > >and preserves that change. > > I understand this behaviour for a removed conffile. but not for a modified > one: > I imagine that aptitude doesn't know whether this conffile comes from a > previous > version or not. > Anyway, if it decides not to install the file, it should: > asks whether to replace or not(cf below), or at least display a warning > message. But you said: >>> I removed /etc/cron.daily/apt, and did "aptitude reinstall apt" You said you removed the file. You didn't say you modified it. > > aptitude -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss reinstall apt > this works, as the name suggests it, only for removed conffiles. > To replace also the modified files, I added in apt.conf > "--force-confask"; > I think there was a time where this was the default with apt-get Of course asking is still the default for apt-get! But you said you were using aptitude. Which being different does have different behaviors. But it is more similar than different. Bob
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