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Re: base-files problem


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 03:02:16PM -0600, René Berber wrote:
> On 2/16/2012 2:41 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote:
> and the files where
> not deleted, just changed in a way I no longer had a PS1.

PS1 is set and exported in /etc/profile

> I also lost
> PROMPT_COMMAND which also showed the current directory.

The default PROMPT_COMMAND is set (commented) in skeletal .bash_profile to
'history -a', which has nothing to do with showing your PWD.

> Its possible
> that I had changed them so the problem is really that those files
> where replaced, probably my mistake if I had modified the wrong files
> (I thought the /etc/skel where the ones I should modify, and not touch
> the /etc/defaults/ files).

The test in the preremove step is done comparing the files under
/etc/skel against those under /etc/defaults/etc/skel. If locally
modified /etc/skel/* files have been removed, that's unexpected.
But there is no way installing base-files could partially modify your
/etc/skel/* files. Even if they were wrongly replaced, you should have
exactly version 4.0-9 files, not partially modified ones.

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