[Aptitude-devel] Bug#806770: aptitude: Command parameter to restore /etc/ configuration files easily

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 - newcomer + moreinfo


Hi David,

2015-12-01 03:05 David Côté-Tremblay:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: newcomer
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>If I mess up a config directory in /etc/, there are no easy command to achieve
>this !
>
>It would be satisfying if that command would have 1 parameter only instead of
>long command not easy to remember:
>sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall
><package-name>

Isn't this more or less the same?

  aptitude purge ${pkg}; aptitude install ${pkg}


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>