On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:- > > <snip> > > >> My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the >> "aliases.YaST2save" file, it just saves it in case it breaks something >> during an update, so that you can manually look in it to see what you >> had before the update. I could, of course, be wrong. >> > > AFAIK, if YaST2 is used to generate a file, in this case /etc/aliases > and the original file has been modified by the user, YaST2 saves the > file with the changes it's made to a file with the .YaST2save extension. > I believe it is similar to rpmsave files. It is the original file saved with the YaST2save (meaning a backup created by YaST2). Yast does modify the original config file. SuSEconfig similarly does this as well. I do think you are correct though that it only does this when you have edited the file independently of Yast.
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