[CentOS] 4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file

Fri Dec 21 15:53:56 UTC 2007
Jeff Larsen <jlar310 at gmail.com>

We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party
application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or
warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a
few minutes when the application failed to start.

Is this a python issue, an upstream issue or a CentOS issue? Can
something be done about it going forward?

Jeff