On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > Not true. dpkg-reconfigure always runs the given package's postinst > script, if one is available.
ah, see i'm not a dpkg expert. > Sounds to me like you have modified this configuration file, and so the > package maintainer scripts are trying not to clobber changes, just as > dpkg tries not to clobber modified conffiles. yes, i understand this is how the xfree86 stuff works, but i didn't change the configuration. This was a clean install, where i selected the wrong driver at install time, and then ran dpkg-reconfigure to fix the problem. But XF86Config-4 didn't get re-generated. I was, however, on MIPS. It is possible that there is an architecture-specific component to this. Ah -- here's an interesting detail: the /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum file is *not present* on this machine. That would explain why the file was never being overwritten. So the bug is simply that the md5sum file isn't being created on a clean install. Or rather, clean upgrade from stable. --scott shortwave Soviet South Africa Hager assassinate Legion of Doom Yakima RNC pending Mossad Columbia postcard quiche SDI DNC immediate Honduras ( http://cscott.net/ )