Re: APT options and dpkg

2006-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.08.0434 +0100]: > Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging > and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of > the package and replace it manually. Sure, both these work. My question

Re: APT options and dpkg

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Well, you're a DD, so you oughta know more than me, but I'll bite. :) Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of the package and replace it manually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

APT options and dpkg

2006-01-05 Thread martin f krafft
After deleting a conffile from the installed yaird package, I try to reinstall the package to get back the conffile: apt-get install --reinstall --option "APT::DPkg::Options={'--force-confmiss';}" yaird However, this does not work. I seem to be able to only reinstall with dpkg -i from APT's ca