[2835] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Strange login behaviour:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Tue Nov 5 16:39:18 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Nov 1996 14:42:12 CST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 15:57:19 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> DB> RPM does some checks to try and make sure that a package is *sure*
> DB> to work if it leaves your file. If it isn't sure, it will drop
> DB> one in that *is* sure to work, albeit maybe not like you wanted.
> DB> It then prints a warning and you *know* you need to go looking
> DB> (and in the case of the upgrade from one distribution to another
> DB> it prints it in the upgrade.log in /tmp).
>
> Then, I have a bit of a complaint. Running an upgrade under glint,
> you don't see any errors. At least, here's my file loss situation:
>
> Installed httpd, put in my own index.html.
>
> Upgrade rpm came out, I upgrade. My index.html is gone, not saved
> anywhere, no errors in from glint.
>
> I might suggest that rpm check if the file has changed since it was
> installed (ala verify) and if it has changed, save it to a .rpmsave.
> It should give you a warning so you can do a find -name "*.rpmsave" if
> you need to.
What you've actually found is a bug in the apache package. RPM only
does that for *config* files. If it did it for *every* file that changed
you'd be in a mell of a hess. That index.html should be marked as
a config file.
Oops...I just checked and it *is* a config file. Are you sure it
didn't backup your old one? That would be a bug...either that, or the
original package didn't have it marked properly.
--Donnie
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