[5987] in RedHat Linux List
Re: why /etc/HOSTNAME was blown away during 3.03->4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Nov 25 11:03:16 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:52:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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cc: rpm-list@redhat.com, matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu
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On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:
>
> There were many people who complained that their /etc/hosts,
> /etc/HOSTNAME, etc., files were not rpmsaved during the RH 3.03 -> 4.0
> upgrade. It seems that rpm still does not know about these files:
> $ rpm -qf /etc/HOSTNAME
> file /etc/HOSTNAME is not owned by any package
> $ rpm -qf /etc/hosts
> file /etc/hosts is not owned by any package
> So it seems they will not be rpmsaved during the next RH upgrade
> either.
Exactly. I need to make my install a bit smarter about this.
> %files
> %config /etc/qmail/control
>
> where /etc/qmail/control is a directory. It turns out that all the
> files in /etc/qmail/control get created under %post. Will these files
> get rpmsaved during upgrade? Glint certainly does not show any files
> from /etc/qmail/control when I query the package. Or,
> $ rpm -qf /etc/qmail/control/me
> file /etc/qmail/control/me is not owned by any package
Those files will be blown away during an install. If they aren't in a packages
file list, they're history.
> Would it make any difference if I listed the files of
> /etc/qmail/control one by one under %config (but I still create the
> files under %post)?
Maybe... the real problem here is RPM compares the filelists to each other
to see what needs to be saved. If you have "/etc/qmail/control/foo" as a
0 byte file in each package, rpm will save the user's version of the file
and then your postinstall will happily blow it away :-(
Erik
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