On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Michael Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 January 2005, at 17:19:03 (+0000), Lance Davis wrote:
I agree totally - but disagree that an 'upgrade' should trash files that you have edited, and remove your configuration just because you have something installed that you shouldnt.
Nobody's files got "trashed." They were renamed for backup purposes.
Think about it: If you're running a cache-only nameserver, there's nothing you could or should reasonably do to named.conf or any of the /var/named/* files. RedHat wants to make sure that the old-and-busted cache data is replaced by the new-hotness cache data, so they backup your old stuff and install their new stuff. This is a perfectly sane, reasonable, and expected course of action.
Yes - but the people who have edited the files are not running cache-only nameservers - they have mistakenly got that rpm installed and then edited their stuff.
If they were running cache-only nameservers then there would not be a problem.
Lance