Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-28 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you both! Regards, Panayiotis On 07/28/2010 03:32 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-28 14:10 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? It is currently not possible to reinstall these from the packages, but the up

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-28 14:10 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? It is currently not possible to reinstall these from the packages, but the upcoming dpkg 1.15.8 has a "--force-confask" option which will allow that. See bug #102609ยน for de

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:10 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? IRC it will not replace those. Kind regards -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-28 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files? Regards On 07/27/2010 02:21 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:16 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without running the purge command? (because of d

Re: [aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:16 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without > running the purge command? (because of dependencies) Run: aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall and (intentionally?) deleted configuration file

[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

2010-07-27 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without running the purge command? (because of dependencies) Thanks in advance! Panayiotis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org