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From: Wolodja Wentland on 27 Jul 2010 07:30 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 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland <wentland(a)cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
From: Panayiotis Karabassis on 28 Jul 2010 08:20 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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C501E2A.9000703(a)gmail.com
From: Wolodja Wentland on 28 Jul 2010 08:30 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 <wentland(a)cl.uni-heidelberg.de> : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
From: Sven Joachim on 28 Jul 2010 08:40 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 #102609� for details. Sven � http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj8veqhw.fsf(a)turtle.gmx.de
From: Panayiotis Karabassis on 29 Jul 2010 00:10 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 #102609� for details. > > Sven > > > � http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609 > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C50FDF6.50804(a)gmail.com
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