also sprach Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.08.0434 +0100]: > Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging > and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of > the package and replace it manually.
Sure, both these work. My question is more of an academic nature. You can pass options to APT with -o. You can tell APT the options to use when calling dpkg. So then I simply wonder why it doesn't work to pass APT the option to tell dpkg to replace missing configuration files with --force-confmiss. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP (sub)keys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! "there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- hamlet
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