I have a problem with files in /etc As I understand, they are marked as "conffiles". The problem is if such a file is missing, it won't be reinstalled. How to tell the package system that this file should be reinstalled if it is deleted? i.e. The file is essential, and can't be missing.
This has happened a few times, when upgrading packages, possibly from an eariler version. So I at least thought about a check, saying "file XXX is missing, it is an essential file, reinstall by doing YYY', or something like that. Only that I don't know what to tell apt-get to reinstall such files. And then, if another file should not be reinstalled, only the essential ones, how to deal with that? There does not appear to be any option to apt-get that does a --force-confmiss When doing a dpkg -i --force-confmiss /u/apt/archives/libkdecore-data_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-1_all.deb I got the following messages: Configuration file `/etc/kde3/colors/Web', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. Configuration file `/etc/kde3/language.codes', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. Configuration file `/etc/kde3/system.kdeglobals', does not exist on system. Installing new config file as you request. That is clearly unacceptable. I wonder how many users of my packages that have missing files, and get unexpected errors due to that. I have gotten bug reports from more than one person regarding missing files. So I want some system so that this does not happen unless intentional. Karolina
