[Pkg-exim4-users] Upgrade re-accept question

[Neil S. Briscoe]

Hi

Try running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and see what happens

I should say I ran into this on my first upgrade to Lenny from Etch - 
and I made the wrong choice too.  Fortunately, I use the unsplit option 
and the exim4.conf.template file in both versions runs in the same 
order, so I ended up going to the base Debian Lenny version and then 
re-introducing my routers/transports from the old version.  This worked, 
but was possibly more work than was necessary.

Regards
Neil

Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> I think this is more like a dpkg usage question, but I can't find the
> answer on google or in the manpage or in the documentation it's pointing
> me to. It's pretty much, I think, the simplest question one could have
> about this situation...
> So I upgraded exim4 and I got the errors that everybody knows so well:
>
> Setting up exim4-config (4.69-2) ...
> DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most 
> probably
> caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
> suggested conffile changes. Please read
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
> 2009-04-07 11:11:09 Exim configuration error in line 32 of
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>  malformed macro definition
> Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not
> installing
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> ....but how do I re-run the script so that I can accept said proposed
> changes? It's true I didn't accept them the first time.... I usually
> don't accept changes to files that I changed myself, because it tends to
> break my config, but clearly in this case I made the wrong choice.
> Thanks,
>    -Josiah
>
>
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