On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:28:22AM -0400, pryzbyj wrote: > Hello Yann, > > This bug seems to be fixed, or otherwise not reproducible with current > dpkg. > > sprintf(cmdbuf, DIFF " -Nu %.250s %.250s | %.250s", old, new, p); > ^^ > It already uses diff -N, and I can confirm that reinstalling a package > whose conffile is removed causes no error. > > Also, it looks like this was for a fresh installation (perhaps from > Config-files); not an upgrade. Otherwise dpkg will (deliberately) > ignore a missing conffile (unless --force-confmiss). I meant to add that the error message you got from diff is possible when *not* using diff -N, as if the file was removed in another terminal before proceeding with the 'd'iff.
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