[3072] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Wed Nov 6 20:45:45 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:43:18 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Donnie Barnes writes:
> 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.
>
Why should /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf get changed at all if they
exist? Why not just leave it up to the administrator to deal with
possibly new names, routes, etc. *if* that is necessary. Same for
/etc/exports, /etc/shadow, and others.
-sen
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