[CentOS] Beware - Yum 3.5 to 3.6 upgrade replaces named.conf

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Nov 15 22:47:43 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:26 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:47 -0800, Michael Rock wrote:
> > I am sure I never specifically installed the caching
> > name server but a rpm -q caching-nameserver yields
> > version 7.3-3_EL3.
> > 
> > I usually just select the DNS option during the GUI
> > install and look to make sure bind is listed (perhaps
> > the caching name server is automatically checked). 
> > There after I ended up editing the named.conf or used
> > webmin that in turn edited the named.conf.
> > 
> > So ultimately I some how ended up with a caching name
> > server I do not need.  So if I got this right 
> > 
> > 1. remove rpm -e caching-nameserver
> > 2. copy my zones from named.conf-rpmsave to
> > named.custom
> > 3. do not use webmin since it edits named.conf or
> > reconfigure it to edit named.custom
> > 
> > Should anything be specifically removed from
> > named.conf or named.custom having to do with the
> > caching name server?
> 
> named.conf is OK for the config file ... it won't get changed on future
> updates
> 
> > 
> > Did I miss anything here?
> > 
> > Thanks guys.
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probably a bugzilla entry to upstream provider to maybe create an
'artificial' conflict between the 2 packages so that you can't install
both accidentally.

Craig


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