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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Nov 7 11:39:28 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:33:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Jon Klaren wrote:
> 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.
These weren't killed by RPM though -- they were killed by the install
process itself. While it's *definitely* a bug (and a bug on my list)
it's not related to RPM at all.
Erik
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