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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 20:41:36 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 16:19:18 PST."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:16:47 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>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.
Damn. It just hit me. Notice:
[1001]marvin:~> rpm -qf /etc/hosts
file /etc/hosts is not owned by any package
Why? Because, it just gets created at install/upgrade time.
We'll need to fix this in the *install* code, not in RPM. Since
damned near everyone's /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf are
different, building and RPM of them would be kinda dumb.
--Donnie
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