Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:50:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in /etc and then > install it again fresh. Ah, but I don't want to do that. I want to be prompted, with all the same options that aptitude usually provides when upgrading a packa

Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:50:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > >Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the > >maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the > >system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package > >mai

Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package maintainer's version? I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in

Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package maintainer's version? -- Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like this fo