Howdy, I am a little curious about the "philosophy" of doing upgrades with RPM. For example, I just did the "New initscripts packages..." upgrade. Since I had slight modifications to a couple of files (for example, mods to /etc/init.d/network, because my DSL pppd connection needed to be shutdown before the eth0 connection) I was curious what the RPM installation method would do.
So following the instructions, I did: # rpm -Fvh *.rpm This ran and indicated that it completed 100%. No mention of what happened with the conflicting files, or even that there were conflicting files. Looking at the /etc/init.d directory, the conflicting files were not replaced. And there do not appear to be any other indications. No email was sent to root, no apparent messages in /var/log, nothing in /tmp. This seems somewhat odd to me. I guess I would expect that using the default instructions would provide some indication if, well, the installation did not in fact complete. And maybe even some indication of what to do about the conflicting files. Like maybe stick the new versions in /tmp and print a message indicating the conflict? Anyway, just curious what others normally do for this kind of a situation. I poked around in various pieces of documentation, and have not yet come across anything addressing this. Duane _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
