[3145] in RedHat Linux List
RE: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail))
Thu Nov 7 10:09:10 1996
From: "Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail)" <dcarpenter@kraft.com>
To: "redhat-list%redhat.com@internet.kraft.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:00:12 -0600
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>From: Donnie Barnes[SMTP:djb%redhat.com@internet.kraft.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 1996 11:30 AM
>To: redhat-list%redhat.com@internet.kraft.com
>Subject: Re: RPM clobbers files
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>> Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> wrote:
>> As someone pointed out, this would usually only flag changed config files,
>> but I can think of a particularly nightmarish day when another brand of
>> Linux cheerfully deleted a whole slew of customised binaries, only four
>> hours after a complete system backup (mercifully). The specifics were
>> different, but the principle very much the same.
Some time ago I wrote a simple hack script for keeping track of all
changes I make to config files. John Fisk put in into his Linux
Gazette, issue # 6, and you can find the script at :
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/lg/lg_issue6.html#new_hack
It basically keeps a copy of the original file and tracks changes with
RCS. You can also hack a directory, it which case it will just keep a
link to that directory. This make it easy to backup all your changes
from one location.
It shouldn't be too much work to find the diffs between your hack'd file
and the one rpm just installed ...
--
Dean Carpenter
dcarpenter@kraft.com
deano@areyes.com
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