Command for re-installing a pattern

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#1

Hello.

I look for a way to re-install the pattern mail_server including configuration files as if nothing was never installed.

I could not achieve this from yast gui.

I tried to remove the pattern, then delete the config files ( the files that i guess belonging to the pattern ) ; then re-installing the pattern give many errors when restarting because some files was missing (re-install was incomplete) in spamassassin.

I tried to download all the rpm files in a specific folder ( zypper in --download-only ) then install from the folder using

rpm --install --force --hash --replacefiles -v *.rpm

but the config files was not replaced and i have not found any config file like “some_file.some_suffix.rpmsave” ( yast2save, rpmnew… ).

Any help is welcome.

#2

Make sure you remove the configuration folders in /etc.
Then run


sudo zypper in -f YOURPATTERPACKAGE
#3

As I said, I have tried that but misses some files and the reinstall failled.

And if you don’t know all the configuration folders and/or files to delete ?
It would be simpler if a single command , or options, would do the job.

It is not logical not to be able to undo what we have installed ourselves.

#4

The above only works for some patterns which are actually packages(Not all patterns have an associated package).

When referencing patterns, and not actual packages

zypper in -f -t pattern *Pattern_name *

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#5

No need to move configuration files unless you want to save them (From the original post, that doesn’t seem to be the case).
When you do a “force re-install” you will over-write everything including configuration files.
When you do an update, you preserve configuration files.

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#6

Not at all.

As i said , I tried :

rpm --install --force --hash --replacefiles -v *.rpm

Does not replace current installed config files.

zypper install --force  -t pattern PATTERN_PACKAGE

Does not replace current installed config files.