HOWTO: Debian BenH

[Aaron Schrab]

At 12:15 +1000 04 Aug 2003, Charles Twardy <ctwardy@mail.csse.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I admit that they show up in the package list (dpkg -c), but while
> /etc/mol gets created, NOTHING gets put in there. Nada, zip, zilch,
> ZERO. 

Did you remove the config files at some point?  If so, dpkg will count
that as a configuration change that needs to be respected and it won't
recreate them.  If the packaged versions of a config file changes, dpkg
will ask if you want to install it, but otherwise it will be silent.
You can change this behaviour by using the --force-confmiss option to
dpkg.

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