On Saturday, January 20, 2007 @ 9:44 AM, Carlos Robinson wrote: >The Friday 2007-01-19 at 20:13 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> Yeah. I'm doing a full system backup and creating a log of which ones I'm >> changing in case something breaks. Then I'm going to go through one by one >> and examine them, renaming them to RPMOLD if they have been bypassed by >> later updates of the file and swapping the RPMNEWs in for the regular RPMs >> if the date on the RPMNEW is more current. If something fouls up, I can >> always recover from the backup. >Don't rename, just move to some other dir. The rpmold name is also used >sometimes, besides rpmnew. Read the man. >- -- >Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Ok. I'll bear that in mind. I went through man rpm and couldn't find anything about this. I had done a Google earlier and found the following. It only mentions RPMNEW and RPMSAVE, not RPMOLD. http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-December/msg04713.html Greg W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
