Your message dated Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:37:12 +0200
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and subject line Use --force-confask in dpkg 1.15.8
has caused the Debian Bug report #307493,
regarding dpkg: unable to reinstall a package (xlibs) , files not overwrited
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.27
Severity: normal
hello
i found a problem in xlibs after upgrading debian, a file
(/etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86) was not upgraded.
so i try to reinstall xlibs_....deb by the following command:
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_...deb
but nothing has changed
so the last solution was to unpack the deb
dpkg -x /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_...deb .
cp etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/.
is there a solution in dpkg to force to reinstall conffiles (xlibs.conffiles)
thanks
sylvain
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.27 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8
In dpkg 1.15.8 there is a new option --force-confask that allows
overwriting changed conffiles with their versions from the package.
Deleted conffiles can be restored with the --force-confmiss option.
Closing the bug,
Sven
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