On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:17:12PM -0700, Alan Ezust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alan, you know that it should only be prompting you on conffiles you >> actually >> modified? Do you really want those overwritten? > > Yes, I see it is indeed only prompting me for conffiles that I > manually modified. In my particular situation, and I realize this is > unusual/dangerous, I still would like to to clobber my handmade > changes with newer versions from a .deb file. Setting those two > environment variables did not change the behavior of dpkg in this > particular case.
If you really want to do this, I think you need to pass --force-confnew to dpkg. You can arrange this either in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg or in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
