Hi! On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 17:39:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> On Montag, 4. Januar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> * It's sometimes necessary to purge a package and reinstall it to > >>> fix some weird problem, or if not necessary at least expedient. > >>> For example, if one accidentally deletes a configuration file, > >>> one of the faster ways to get the original configuration file > >>> shipped with the package back is to purge and reinstall the > >>> package. It saves unpacking the package somewhere and manually > >>> copying out the configuration file. > > > For this, you actually should be using --force-confmiss. > > Is there some way to pass that flag through apt-get or aptitude? By the > time I've resorted to aptitude download to get the *.deb to run dpkg on, > it's usually easier to have just done aptitude purge, aptitude install.
Here's several alternatives: $ aptitude reinstall -odpkg::options::="--force-confmiss" pkg or: $ apt-get install --reinstall -odpkg::options::="--force-confmiss" pkg or: $ aptitude download pkg $ dpkg --force-confmiss -i pkg_*.deb regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
