How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without running
the purge command? (because of dependencies)


Thanks in advance!
Panayiotis


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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 <pkg>

and (intentionally?) deleted configuration files will be installed
again.

Kind regards

Wolodja
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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 dependencies)


Run:

aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall<pkg>

and (intentionally?) deleted configuration files will be installed
again.

Kind regards

Wolodja




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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.

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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 #102609¹ for details.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609


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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 upcoming dpkg 1.15.8 has a "--force-confask" option which will allow
that. See bug #102609¹ for details.

Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609






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