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Re: Strange login behaviour:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Horn)
Tue Nov 5 19:03:38 1996

Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 18:51:56 -0500
From: Christopher Horn <chorn@warwick.net>
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Donnie Barnes wrote:

> 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).

Maybe an option to override the current %config file behaviour, so that
the new config file would never be put in place to begin with?

Cheers,
Chris


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