On Fri, 7 May 1999, Sam wrote:

> > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:42:11AM -0500, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> > # Another funny thing is that the 6.0 upgrade moved my pine.conf to
> > # pine.conf.rpmsave, and replaced it with *nothing*.  Funny, funny...

rpm -ql pine will probably tell you that the new pine doesn't include a
pine.conf in /usr/lib.  It's now (correctly) in /etc.

> > I hope you are reporting these problems to RedHat
> 
> It's not a bug, it's a feature.  When upgrading, RPM will keep
> configuration files only if it is reasonably sure that any custom-made
> changes to config files won't break the new version.  Hopefully, there
> will be messages in /tmp/INSTALL.LOG specifying which config files have
> been reset, and where.

Exactly.

Matthew.

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