On Wed, Mar 17, 2004, Mike's List wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Matthias Kurz wrote: > > > > > Maybe this was best suited for your case. Generally an update is better > > than a remove/reinstall, i think, because the update retains modified > > config files in most cases. > > I find that openpkg saves the config into a different file, in my case, > postfix --> main.cf --> main.cf.rpmsave (I only modified main.cf). > I'm not certain about other files such as access, virtual, etc. as I did > not modify those.
Yes, i thought that modified config files are saved as *.rpmsave by rpm when a package is removed, but i was not sure. Most of the time it is still unessesary work to move them back after reinstallation. And it is error prone because you may forget it and you are not informed when the format of the config file changed... There where several discussions about the handling of config files on this list. When you are interested you can take a look at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/ch-rpm-upgrade.html#S1-RPM-UPGRADE-WHAT-IT-DOES There is also something under http://www.openpkg.org/doc/articles/sysadmin/article.html (mk) BTW: Isn't the "maximum rpm" version on the redhat site newer than the one on openpkg.org ? I would prefer to refer to openpkg.org... -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im pr�motorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
