[LUNI] More help with pkg installing: /etc files

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:27:22PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> It seems that the installer of debian style packages often does not 
> install files in subdirectories of /etc if that subdirectory already exists.

Not unless there's something very wrong.

> For example, I'm missing the files:
> 
> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.load
> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.conf
> 
> (dpkg -L libapache2-mod-php4 shows these files)
> 
> from libapache2-mod-php4, and reinstalling the package does not put them 
> there. I guess I could fool the installer by renaming /etc/apache2 
> something else temporarily, but is there a way to override this behavior?

I don't know what's wrong, but your system is *not* working properly. 
I just installed mod-php4 on a Sarge machine that had apache2 (and
other mods) but not mod-php4, and it worked as expected, ie., installed
those files.

Possibly the package database is messed up - I've seen some weird
symptoms when that happened, though never anything like failing to
install part of a package without any complaints.

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