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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Klaren)
Thu Nov 7 12:47:27 1996
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 09:14:08 -0800
From: Jon Klaren <jklaren@qualcomm.com>
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Erik Troan wrote:
>
> 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
Yes, it makes sense now. Another one to add to the list is
/etc/conf.modules
-Jon
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Jon Klaren
San Diego, CA USA
jklaren@qualcomm.com
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