On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:32 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:56 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 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? > > > > not specific to yum configs, but just config files for updates in > general. rhn sources file, yum config, etc. > > In RHEL , the RHN files are included in redhat-release. > _______________________________________________ Sorry ... I did also mean to say that Fedora Core does do the same thing with their yum.repos.d conf files too ... they are in fedora-release. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20060905/d359196c/attachment-0005.sig>