On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
fedora did not overwrite any crontab from FC5 to F15 now because rpm-packages mark such configurations so the new versions get installed as .rpmnew
Which means the changes those versions would like to have made won't take effect. So it is still best to avoid editing it yourself if you can put your local jobs in one of the other possible places.
which means updates do not randomly change configurations and this is good so since it is your job as admin to look if the rpmnew contains anything which is interesting for you and if not let your working configuration in peace
But you've done an even better job as an admin if you don't mess with rpm managed files in the first place, and the packagers have done a better job if they abstract out all the things that are likely to need local changes - like the stuff generally under /etc/sysconfig to make that possible.