Re: Will somethings break if an administrator removes a file marked as conffile?

2011-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Regid Ichira wrote: > Will the debian management system interpret a missing conffile as > though it was removed by the system administrator? Yes. A missing conffile has been determined to a local configuration and will be preserved upon upgrades. You can use the dpkg option --force-confmiss to

Will somethings break if an administrator removes a file marked as conffile?

2011-07-17 Thread Regid Ichira
Will the debian management system interpret a missing conffile as though it was removed by the system administrator? That is, will somethings break if the administrator removes a conffile, rather then nullify its contents or commenting in each line of the file? The file is marked by dpkg as a c