Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 September 2006 17:48, Mike McQueen wrote:
> What is the preferred method of protecting various selected system
> configuration files in SUSE 10.1 during package updates from being
> overwritten?

Normally, the rpm package will create a file 
called /etc/file.xyz.rpmorig or something to that effect. That's not to 
say that the original file won't be over written, but it seems to be 
the norm that I've seen. It leaves your file alone (I think) and 
creates this new one in case there are changes you need to make. 


>
> For example, if I want to be sure that /etc/file.xyz is not altered
> during a package update install session what action should be taken?
> Further, would such an action allow the newer file.xyz to be placed
> under a different extention for later review of differences?

If it's something really important, and you want to make sure, copy it 
to another directory. Before I do something drastic that might kill a 
program I'm running, I simply copy the original config file to 
say /tmp/etc . At least that way I've got a copy of the original incase 
rpm does change it.

Mike


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