On Fri, Apr 08, 2005, Mark Keller wrote: >I have to agree that openpkg rpm upgrades often cause problems with config >files. I hate it when my modified configs get moved to .rpmsave when I know >that they would work perfectly fine with the new package. This does cause >potential downtime for services that get restarted with a vanilla config that >doesn't do what people using the service expect. > >Talking about it with David offline I think we see what the problem might be. >Take a look at the Maximum RPM book description of "rpm -U — What Does it >Do?": > >http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-upgrade.html#S1-RPM-UPGRADE-WHAT-IT-DOES
I suspect that this is somewhat out of date as I think I've seen files with suffixes other than the .rpmorig and .rpmsave cited in this article. My hard copy of Maximum RPM is dated 1997, and I don't think a newer version is available. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
