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Re: Strange login behaviour:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 01:38:29 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:54:18 EST."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 01:20:40 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>> 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.
>
>This would not be a bad idea. If you think about it the only files in a
>package that really ever change are configuration related, so it would
>provide automatic configuration file handling. And since some
>configuration files, like default X resource files, are rarely changed
>by many users it saves on the number of .rpmsave files laying around
>that may never get cleaned up after an upgrade.
That is exactly what it does. If it is not doing that for you,
please let us know under what circumstances.
--Donnie
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