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?
That is a property of the RPM package: Files that are marked as configuration files are not overwritten if they have been changed.
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?
AFAIK, there is no possibility to mark a file as a configuration file outside the RPM package. You can query a package about its configuration files with rpm -qc -p PACKAGE. HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany