On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:19:35PM -0500, exim@??? wrote:
> Where does a freshly installed Exim4 package check to see whether it
> is being installed in place over a previously existing Exim4 installation?
Everything that you described in your mail is entirely standard behavior
for Debian packages and is really outside the scope of the exim list.
Investigate e.g. the dpkg-reconfigure command. Since you blew away
/etc/exim4, and dpkg tries to respect local config changes even if those
"changes" mean the files were removed completely, you *may* need to use
the --force-confnew option to dpkg, but try to avoid it if you can.
noah
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Noah Meyerhans System Administrator
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
