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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Wed Nov 6 20:03:40 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:56:16 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Jon Klaren writes:
> Otto Hammersmith, Donnie Barnes, Michael K Johnson, Tim Baverstock all
> wrote :
> [much interesting conversation about rpm clobbering files]
>
> This discussion has turned rather philosophic. I don't mean to
> prolong this thread, but...
> I can confirm, as earlier posts in this thread mentioned, that
> /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf were replaced, not *.rpmsave'd,
> when upgrading a 3.0.3 machine to 4.0. I beleive that these
> should have been marked as %config files, and that this behavior
> is either a bug in RPM or in the packages.
Any others that got hit? What about /etc/passwd, /etc/named.boot,
other named config files? How about /usr/lib/XF86Config?
In fact, it would be useful for many of us to have a list of the files
in /etc and in /usr/lib/X11 which get replaced. How about the network
init scripts, ppp-config files?
Should one be expected to have to reconfigure all the network, DNS,
printer stuff with an upgrade? If so, why? Are the binaries renamed?
Thanks for any info.
-sen
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