[maemo-developers] maemo-developers Digest, Vol 34, Issue 7

[From: Tony Green]

On Wednesday 06 Feb 2008, maemo-developers-request at maemo.org wrote:

> Message: 16
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 20:33:14 +0200
> From: Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt>
[...]
> > But... when I actually install the package, I end up without an init
> > file.
[...]
>
> Have you solved this problem already?  If not, perhaps this might be
> relevant: http://www.davidpashley.com/blog/2008/02/05#confmiss
Thanks. Might give me some pointers.
>
[...]
>
> It does sound like you stumbled on the exact same feature that's
> described in the blog post.
>
> HTH,
> Marius Gedminas

I think you're right, Marius. I subsequently found that using dpkg's purge 
argument instead of remove caused the reinstall to work as I'd expect. So in 
the real world, users will be at the mercy of whichever option the package 
manager uses, which will affect what files are left on the machine after 
removal, but on balance that's a lower priority than getting it working in 
the  first place...

-- 
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
http://www.beermad.org.uk
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