reassign 236468 dpkg thanks On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:27:22AM +0100, Michael Holzt wrote:
> Currently a "apt-get install <package> --reinstall" invocation will not > touch the configuration files, and does not ask when a configuration file > was changed or is missing. This behaviour is managed by dpkg, and apt does not override it. You are correct that by default, dpkg does not do anything about a missing configuration file (this is considered a configuration change by the administrator, and preserved). You can override that with --force-confmiss (a dpkg option, not an apt option). -- - mdz
