Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (261 mails)

[Christian Boltz <cb.suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Montag, 5. April 2004 12:10 schrieb Armin Schoech:
> >     I'm trying to reinstall a package manually with rpm in SuSE 9.0
> > and some config files doesn't get updated. I tried with --force,
> > --replacefiles and so on, and that files doesn't get updated
> > anyway. I don't know if it's a security issue or something I have
> > to worry about... Do you know how to *really* reinstall a complete
> > package (including configuration files)? Thanks in advance.
>
> --> When I want to make sure that everything is replaced, I
> de-install the package and then reinstall it again:
> rpm -e packagename
> rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm

This won't help if you have changed a config file ;-)

rpm only deletes or overwrites files that have not been changed. 
Otherwise, the file will not be deleted or overwritten, but a *.rpmnew 
will be created instead or the existing config file will be renamed to 
*.rpmorig (depends on the package which way will happen).

Let's assume you'll uninstall apache. The really clean way is: 
(untested, but should work ;-)

    rpm -ql apache >/tmp/apachefilelist
    rpm -e apache
    while read file ; do
        test -e "$file" && echo "$file still exists" # && rm -i "$file"
    done < /tmp/apachefilelist

Note: Files not contained directly in the rpm package (i. e. files 
created by SuSEconfig and log files) are not listed in   rpm -ql


Gruß

Christian Boltz
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