On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:56, Jason Faulkner 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. > > -- > Jason Faulkner
I've *never* experienced that with Mandrake, and haven't seen or heard of that happening with RedHat in a long, long time. Both are RPM based. I'm sure there may be some oddities out there - but those packages wouldn't be found in the main upgrade repositories. Now some apps, when they go through a major upgrade, require you to modify the configs - but that is an application problem - and most major apps at least *try* maintain backwards compatibility. That kind or a problem will strike no matter what the distro... And I believe that most auto-updates have options that let you avoid major version updates - or make you manually ok them. Again, the beauty of Linux is that we learn from our past mistakes. Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
