Re: Installing missing conffiles (was Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??)

2016-11-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 20:25:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2016-11-30 14:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > >> To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the > >> "--force-confmiss" option when installing. T

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:20:43 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >[Restoring deleted conffiles] > >> dpkg --force-confmiss --install , as suggested by Simon, >> didn't work > >Hm, that smells like a bug. No, I missed typing the questio

Re: Installing missing conffiles (was Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??)

2016-11-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-11-30 14:16 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: >> To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the >> "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore >> missing configuration files, but not overwrit

Re: Installing missing conffiles (was Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??)

2016-11-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > > To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the > > "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore > > missing configuration files, but not overwrite ch

Installing missing conffiles (was Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??)

2016-11-30 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18:41 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the > "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore > missing configuration files, but not overwrite changed ones. If some > configuration files were dam

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 13:20 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > [Restoring deleted conffiles] > > > dpkg --force-confmiss --install , as suggested by Simon, > > didn't work > > Hm, that smells like a bug. For me it worked on alr

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 30.11.2016 um 13:20 schrieb Simon Richter: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > [Restoring deleted conffiles] > >> dpkg --force-confmiss --install , as suggested by Simon, >> didn't work > > Hm, that smells like a bug. I think this was meant as a questio

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: [Restoring deleted conffiles] > dpkg --force-confmiss --install , as suggested by Simon, > didn't work Hm, that smells like a bug. Simon

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 12:16 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I think it would be really cool if etckeeper could create and maintain > a dpkg-dist branch with all the pristine stuff in it, no idea what > hooks or integration would be needed for that though! Oh, looks like I'm not the only one: http

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 12:54 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi Svante, > > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 17:58 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any > > longer? > > I think it would be nice to make restoring the original configuration >

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Svante, On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 17:58 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any > longer? I think it would be nice to make restoring the original configuration easier. The various --force-conf* options by dpkg are not easily discovered an

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:00:40 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: >> To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the >> "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore >> missing configuration files, but not ov

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
Sorry for empty messages, but my mailer: evolution has gone nuts after the upgrade and recovery :( On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 11:56 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:18 +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.11.2016 17:58, Svante Signell wrote: > > > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any longer? > > Examples are bash, passwd, basefiles and libpam-runtime. Especially the last > > one cost me a day deb

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Svante Signell

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-30 Thread Svante Signell

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 05:13:50AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I don't know a suitable forum for this type of question. And please don't > > refer > > me to the high-traffic ML debian-user, I won't use that one. > > You don't need to subscribe to be able to post. Using one of the > support ch

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-29 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 17:58:58 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > I don't know a suitable forum for this type of question. And please don't > refer > me to the high-traffic ML debian-user, I won't use that one. You don't need to subscribe to be able to post. Using one of the support channels before s

Re: dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 29.11.2016 17:58, Svante Signell wrote: > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any longer? > Examples are bash, passwd, basefiles and libpam-runtime. Especially trhe last > one cost me a day debugging to find out why logins crashed. What is causing > this, do I h

dpkg no longer installs conffiles??

2016-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
Hello Rahpahel, Cc: debian-devel Sorry to bother you but I found your name at the following page: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-configuration-file-managed -by-dpkg/ I don't know a suitable forum for this type of question. And please don't refer me to the high-traffic ML de