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Re: RPM clobbers files [was: Re: Strange login behaviour: ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 00:55:19 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 22:02:26 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:52:39 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>It sounds like it would be handy to be able to list all those files which
>would be clobbered by a given RPM, which no longer match the original
>installation. rpm -Vp, perhaps? Or have I missed something which does
>this already? (I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to cook something up with
>sort and uniq)
Come on folks...think about what you are saying. "All" files that
no longer match the original installation would be all the
binaries, libs, etc. I think here you mean "All" the config files.
You can just do 'rpm -qcp package.rpm' to find the config files
it has. If you're paranoid, back those up. RPM *should* always
back them up for you if it changes them, and should always print
a message to that effect. If it doesn't, it's a bug.
Now, you can do an 'rpm -V packagename' to see if anything
changed, but you can't limit that to config files. I'll talk
to Erik about that.
FWIW, I've mentioned this before...the redhat-list is high
traffic and is subject to not being patrolled by us as well
as we'd like. Lower traffic lists that are more specific,
like the rpm-list, are more likely to get you somewhere when
making RPM suggestions. Most often we can leave this list to
help itself along nicely...
--Donnie
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