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From: Todd A. Jacobs on 30 May 2010 20:20
I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc
files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but
isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine
state?

The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it
will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde.

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From: Jordan Metzmeier on 30 May 2010 20:50
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc
> files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but
> isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine
> state?
>
> The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it
> will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde.
>
>
The option will likely be the --force-confmiss dpkg option.

From the IRC bot:

The reason you have to use dpkg --force-confmiss is because whenever
your config files (<conffiles>) are gone, dpkg assumes you deleted them
on purpose, and that you want them to stay deleted. You can also
reinstall them using the following apt-get line: apt-get -o
DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" --reinstall install <packagename>; or
using aptitude, aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall
<packagename>;


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From: Jordan Metzmeier on 30 May 2010 21:20
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc
> files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but
> isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine
> state?
>
> The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it
> will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde.
>
>

Sorry about splitting this into two emails, but the reason that it wants
to remove those packages is because they are "automatically installed"
either via recommends or depends. You can mark them as manually
installed with aptitude unmarkauto <package>. Sometimes you can easily
unmark many packages at once with aptitude keep-all (by removing the
package with dpkg so that the other actions are "pending" as far as
aptitude is concerned).


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From: Andrei Popescu on 31 May 2010 02:30
On Sun,30.May.10, 20:50:09, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> >
> >The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it
> >will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde.
>
> Sorry about splitting this into two emails, but the reason that it
> wants to remove those packages is because they are "automatically
> installed" either via recommends or depends. You can mark them as
> manually installed with aptitude unmarkauto <package>. Sometimes you
> can easily unmark many packages at once with aptitude keep-all (by
> removing the package with dpkg so that the other actions are
> "pending" as far as aptitude is concerned).

It can also be that the package to be purged/reinstalled has (a lot of)
reverse dependencies. If you know what you're doing you can
--force-depends it ;)

Regards,
andrei
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