-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > Sounds like you want dpkg --force-confmiss. > > > > > > I wouldn't expect that since the documentation states: > > > > > > confmiss: Always install a missing configuration > > > file. This is dangerous, since it means not pre- > > > serving a change (removing) made to the file. > > > > > > How could it be dangerous to install a *missing* configuration file? > > > > If the default configuration data in the file do something you don't want. > > For example... Logcheck has a number of files under /etc/logcheck/ignore.d... that are marked as configuration files. Removing a configuration files means that more information is present in the log summary. (automaticly) Replacing these configuration files would result in unwanted behaviour. - -- arthur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tiefighter.et.tudelft.nl/~arthur -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9ZKQgVYan35+NCKcRAoZSAJ4u1IeVFKCujBEuSr3yj9L9CZpCxQCfYgZO e+MVu8TbK1ViLL5zA6i9ui8= =W8zs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
