On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:10:58PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > > I was asking for real examples in order to discuss how the case of > > bind and db.root is *not* a member of that set and how there may be a > > genuine problem with the handling of installing over missing > > configuration files. > > Maybe db.root just shouldn't be a conffile, that's all.
{Gesturing} That's what I'm saying. > > > As far as I can tell there is no way to pass --force-confmiss to dpkg > > when using apt-get. Perhaps this is the only real omission. > > Sure there is: it's something like -o DPkg::Options=--force-confmiss. OK. You got me. Is there any hope that's you'll at least cede that that's not as straightforward as we *could* be? > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]