[Centos] yum configuration files lost while/after updating ?

[donavan nelson]

yum upgrades always seem to break the yum.conf file.  This is an 
upstream issue (as it's present in FC2 as well).

I've gotten so irritated by it I have a  cron that I run every 10 
minutes to restore "my" yum.conf and apt .list files.

Martin Hamant wrote:

>Hello centOS users,
>
>Today i've installed a fresh centos 3.1, and modified the [update]
>section of my/etc/yum.conf, to point on my own update repository.
>
>My update repository (3.1) contains exactly the same content that the
>official one. Update was successful but now /etc/yum.conf is missing :(
>
>Here it is what i've noticed during the update process:
>
># cat /etc/redhat-release 
>CentOS release 3.1 (final)
>
>#yum update
>
>[...]
>warning: /etc/yum.conf created as /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew
>yum 100 % done 96/191 
>[...]
>warning: /etc/centos-base-yum.conf saved as
>/etc/centos-base-yum.conf.rpmsave Completing update for yum  - 110/191
>[...]
>Transaction(s) Complete
>
># cat /etc/redhat-release 
>CentOS release 3.3 (final)
>
>=> files /etc/yum.conf*
>/etc/yum.conf -> /etc/centos-base-yum.conf ( Broken link! read the
>rest)
>/etc/yum.conf.rpmnew
>/etc/yum.conf-SAVE
>
>=> files /etc/centos*
>
>/etc/centos-base-yum.conf.rpmsave
>/etc/centos-yum.conf
>
>I don't understand what happened :-O
>An idea ?
>
>  
>