[2815] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Strange login behaviour:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Tue Nov 5 15:17:42 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 14:54:01 EST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 14:58:05 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> > I am a HUGE RedHat fan, ask the folks where I work, but this needs to be
> > corrected in the NEXT release. Some (most?) of us have highly configured
> > systems.
>
> Look, RPM has a very sophisticated mechanism for deciding if it's safe
> to leave a file in place, or if it needs to change it. If you have complaints,
> please send them to the rpm-list@redhat.com along with a *better* way to
> handle things.
Sorry...I just read this again and it sounds snappy, and it shouldn't.
RPM does some checks to try and make sure that a package is *sure* to work
if it leaves your file. If it isn't sure, it will drop one in that *is*
sure to work, albeit maybe not like you wanted. It then prints a warning
and you *know* you need to go looking (and in the case of the upgrade
from one distribution to another it prints it in the upgrade.log in /tmp).
Apache config files *could* change from one version to another, and we want
to try to protect against that. If you want to argue, the rpm-list is a
better place for it.
--Donnie
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