[CentOS] CentOS-4.4 update: don't forget those rpmsave and rpmnew files folks!

Ed Morrison ed at morrisonnetworks.com
Thu Aug 31 14:50:12 UTC 2006


William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:45 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote:
>   
>> William L. Maltby wrote:
>>     
>>> After you do your update, done forget to do updatedb, makewhatis, ...
>>> <snip>
>>>       
>
>   
>> Hi William,
>>
>> I'm good for the updatedb but would you mind going into the others i.e 
>> makewhatis and ....?
>>     
>
> Makewhatis builds the database for the keywords used by "man -k" (*not*
> "man -K"), apropos and whatis commands.
>
>   
>> What do people do after running yum and updating their servers?
>>     
>
> Servers? Others should answer that. But what I've picked up from the
> project folks is that when certain files (usually config files) are
> updated, the new file may *not* be installed and will be left on the
> system as *.rpmnew. If they *are* installed, the previous file will be
> available as *.rpmsave.
>
> I always examine both of these and the new installed file, if any, and
> make sure localizations are carried forward. E.g. enabling sendmail to
> hear the network instead of just localhost by changing the sendmail.cf
> file (I think that's the one that then generates the .mc file).
>
> My Xorg config changes is another example. Changes to force DRI, allow
> me to quickly switch between 6 screen resolutions with
>
>     <CTL><ALT><+|->
>
> to support my tired old eyes better.
>
>   
>> <snip sig stuff>
>>     
>
> HTH
> ---
> Bill
>
>
>   
Thanks Bill.  That helps a lot. 

Ed




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