On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:-
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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org