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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: block -1 by 32877

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >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}

No. This forces all reverse dependencies to be removed. That's
definitely not what you want.

IMHO the clean way to get this kind of feature set is when dpkg does
not only remember the default hashsum of all conffiles, but the whole
contents of the conffile. See https://bugs.debian.org/32877 ("dpkg:
Cleverer conffile merge") for that discussion.

		Regards, Axel
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