On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:50:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: tftpd > Version: 0.17-12 > > On a clean Debian system, do the following: > > cat /etc/inetd.conf [notice there is no tftpd line] > aptitude install tftpd > cat /etc/inetd.conf [notice presence of tftpd line] > aptitude purge tftpd > cat /etc/inetd.conf [notice line is still present, but commented-out] > > Purge ought to remove the line, not just comment it out. > > Why, you ask? Because *other* tftpd packages (such as tftpd-hpa) might > simply uncomment the existing line, rather than creating a new line > of their own, in order to "preserve" an earlier configuration. This > yields problems when first experimenting with which tftp daemon to > install. For example, the following two sequences of commands > yield *different* installations of tftpd-hpa, but ought not to do so: > > -> start with clean system > -> aptitude install tftpd > -> aptitude purge tftpd > -> aptitude install tftpd-hpa > > -> start with clean system > -> aptitude install tftpd-hpa > > For comparison, note that tftpd-hpa correctly deletes its inetd.conf line > when tftpd-hpa is purged. Package tftpd ought to behave the same way!
If tftpd-hpa fails to install correctly, I guess that's a problem in that package, not in tftpd. I fail to see why any package should fail just for having a comment line in a config file. You may want to contact the tftpd-hpa maintainer about this. Regards, Alberto -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
