On Wed,05.Aug.09, 09:38:54, Hinko Kocevar wrote: > Hi, > > I've started using dpkg in the company I work for now. Before that I > was not familiar with the tool.
dpkg is a very useful tool, but it shouldn't be necessary unless your package is not available via APT. > My question is in regard to the fact when/how are files installed in > /etc/default when I run 'dpkg -i pkg.deb'. Not every package ships files in /etc/default, not even in /etc > What I've observed is that missing or modified file in /etc/default is > never installed or replaced, even when missing on the filesystem and > present in the deb package. If file in /etc/default is missing it can > be forced with 'dpkg --force-all -i pkg.deb', that works. This is not > the case for eg. files placed in /opt/bin (the same package). > > I guess that there is a resonable explanatin for this and that is what > I'm looking for. If the file in question is declared as a conffile then yes, dpkg will not replace it if missing. If you have a newer version of the same package with a modified conffile dpkg should ask what to do (keep old, replace, ...) I think you are looking for --force-confmiss and --force-confnew, but please read the manpage for dpkg before attempting this. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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