[BlueOnyx:10522] Re: Request for not overwriting a file during updates

Michael Stauber mstauber at blueonyx.it
Wed May 9 08:39:14 -05 2012


Hi Tobias,

> as I put in my firewall rules into /etc/cron.hourly/log_traffic I really
> don't like the file to be overwritten during updates of the
> base-sitestats-scripts package. Should be no big deal to just create it as
> .rpmnew if rpm detects the file as change by hand, right?

Yeah, I'll declare that file as config file in the RPM specfile and it'll be 
safe from updates. If the file has been modified manually since install, RPM 
updates will not change it anymore then.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber



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