[Dirvish] dirvish-cronjob

[Bernhard Reinhardt]

Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 01 Sep 2006, Bernhard Reinhardt wrote:
>> could someone be so kind to mail me the contents of a normal
>> /etc/dirvish/dirvish-cronjob?
> 
> [sent offlist]
> 
>> I removed it and although I reinstalled the package it didn't come back.
> 
> That's because it's marked in Debian as a "conffile", and user
> modifications in conffiles must be preserved; removing a conffile also
> counts as a modification :-)
> 
> You could have done the following:
> 
> $ dpkg-deb --extract /var/cache/apt/archives/dirvish-blabla.deb /tmp/dirvish
> 
> and the contents of the package would have been put in /tmp/dirvish/.
> This is assuming you had downloaded the dirvish package via apt (and
> replaced "blabla" with something more appropriate :-)

Very well. I see there's still much to learn :-)

Thanks alot.

Bernhard