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

[William Warren]

Yes i noticed that while installing the upgrades it installed a 
new yum.conf.

donavan nelson wrote:

> 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 ?
>>
>>  
>>
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