On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 11:11:00AM -0400, Bill Leach wrote:
> I have not run a Red Hat system for well over a year now but I suspect that
> this consideration applies to RPM as well as Debian's dselect/apt package
> system... If you make changes to ppp/options these changes will be lost
> whenever you do an upgrade because you are not supposed to alter the
> ppp/options files.
This is not quite true. rpm will rename the ppp/options file to ppp/options.rpmsave
before installing the new file. This only works, of course, if the package
builder specified that ppp/options is a configuration file.
So the file is not lost but one has to either replace the new options file
with the old one or merge the two.
rpm also supports a command option to list the package configuration files
but AFAIK does not have an option to keep existing configuration files.
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