Thanks Ben, Ok, this helps a bit, and I have another question.
It turns out fink wasn't installing the conffile because I had manually removed it myself, and I guess it was still expecting it to be present. Once I purged (the manually rm'd file) using "sudo dpkg --purge antiword" fink is now installing it from the package again. My new question is, when I upgraded 'upclient' a while ago it prompted me about the existing /sw/etc/upclient.conf file, whether to install the maintainer's version or not. Fink renamed my existing one to 'upclient.conf.dpkg-old', which is cool. I'd like this to happen with the antiword package too rather than just skip installing it, so the user can compare the old and new config files (fontinfo) in case there any changes. I feel kind of silly now because I can't get an uninstall & (re)install of upclient to do this anymore to look at exactly how it works. So if a conf file already exists, under what conditions will fink prompt the user about installing/backing up the conf file? Thanks, Carsten On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 09:58 pm, Ben Hines wrote: > Just tried it, and it works fine... you do understand how conffiles > works? The conffiles will not be removed unless you do "dpkg purge > packagename". If you update something it won't reinstall the conffile > on top of the current existing one. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
