On 1/11/06, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/11/06, Jason Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I haven't used RH in a while, so correct me if I'm wrong) > > > > Doesn't RH automatically replace config files saving the old as > > .rpmsave when they change? That to me is reason enough not to auto > > update. > > The behavior of how rpm based distributions handle config files is fairly > complex and not well understood. It all depends on if the files are > specified as config files in the RPM file list. If they aren't, they are > blindly overwritten, no questions asked, nothing saved. Since this > has to be done by hand (or at least up until I quit working with > RPM spec files regularly), there is lots of room for error here. > > But, assuming the config files are correctly specified in the rpm spec > file, then it depends on if you specify %config(noreplace) (iirc, since > I'm probably rusty on this) then the new file will be added as > configfilename.rpmnew. I don't remember under what conditions > it will replace the config file and rename the older one as > configfilename.rpmsave, but that exists too.
This, to me, is plenty of reason not to automatically update. -- Jason Faulkner ------------------------ OldOs.org Owner/Admin // OpenDocument Fellowship Sysadmin
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