[CentOS-devel] CentOS-4.4 yumconf

seth vidal

skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Sep 6 02:56:55 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 11:28 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>if the files are (config) type, then a locally user modified version
> >>will superseed the new rpm based one, and will result in your config's
> >>being left alone with the new files being dropped as .rpmnew
> >>
> >>I'd presume this is what happened ?
> The problem is an rpm issue where if you delete a config file, it will 
> 'come back' when an update is installed.
> > 
> > 
> > The purpose of this change is so that we mirror what is done by
> > upstream.


what's 'the upstream' in this case?

You mean where fedora is putting it?

-sv





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