Re: [Fink-devel] need help with ConfFiles field

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

Thanks Ben,
Ok, this helps a bit, and I have another question.

It turns out fink wasn't installing the conffile because I had manually 
removed it myself, and I guess it was still expecting it to be present. 
Once I purged (the manually rm'd file) using "sudo dpkg --purge 
antiword" fink is now installing it from the package again.

My new question is, when I upgraded 'upclient' a while ago it prompted 
me about the existing /sw/etc/upclient.conf file, whether to install 
the maintainer's version or not. Fink renamed my existing one to 
'upclient.conf.dpkg-old', which is cool. I'd like this to happen with 
the antiword package too rather than just skip installing it, so the 
user can compare the old and new config files (fontinfo) in case there 
any changes.

I feel kind of silly now because I can't get an uninstall & (re)install 
of upclient to do this anymore to look at exactly how it works. So if a 
conf file already exists, under what conditions will fink prompt the 
user about installing/backing up the conf file?

Thanks,
Carsten

On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 09:58  pm, Ben Hines wrote:

> Just tried it, and it works fine... you do understand how conffiles 
> works? The conffiles will not be removed unless you do "dpkg purge 
> packagename". If you update something it won't reinstall the conffile 
> on top of the current existing one.