On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:53 -0600, Jeff Larsen wrote: > 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? [ignacio at centos4 ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py python-(none):2.3.4-14.4.i386 [ignacio at centos4 ~]$ rpm -qpl CentOS/RPMS/python-2.3.4-14.4.i386.rpm | \ > grep site\\.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyc /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyo [ignacio at centos4 ~]$ Upstream. Although an application requiring changes to site.py seems suspect to me. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed -------------- 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/attachments/20071221/c2df6911/attachment-0005.sig>