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["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:-
>
> <snip>
>
>   
> > My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the
> > "aliases.YaST2save" file, it just saves it in case it breaks something
> > during an update, so that you can manually look in it to see what you
> > had before the update. I could, of course, be wrong.
> >     
>
> AFAIK, if YaST2 is used to generate a file, in this case /etc/aliases
> and the original file has been modified by the user, YaST2 saves the
> file with the changes it's made to a file with the .YaST2save extension.
>   
I believe it is similar to rpmsave files.  It is the original file saved
with the YaST2save (meaning a backup created by YaST2).  Yast does
modify the original config file.  SuSEconfig similarly does this as
well.  I do think you are correct though that it only does this when you
have edited the file independently of Yast.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64





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