[WBEL-users] Install and Remove Applications

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 10:03 AM 10/22/2004, Paul Pianta wrote:

>Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
>>Oh, a second question about yum.  Somewhere in all my readings I noted 
>>that updates will NOT be installed if you have modified the packages conf 
>>files...
>>
>>Whow!  This has to be wrong!  I can see that I COULD have done bind 
>>differently and modified the named-exceptions.conf file (or whatever it 
>>is called) instead of named.conf, but neither openldab nor samba gives me 
>>anyway to configure them (that I have discovered) that does not modify 
>>the supplied configs.  And if is were the case, would not these programs 
>>tell you to modify files other than the supplied configs????
>
>Yum uses rpm for all of its work so the same rpm rules apply. If an update 
>to an rpm package is installed (by yum or rpm) over the top of the same 
>name older package, if the rpm was well packaged (as most are) then the 
>package will install but any config files will not be overwritten. Instead 
>they will be written with the .rpmnew extension (eg. yum.conf.rpmnew will 
>be created in /etc alongside your original customised yum.conf after 
>updating the 'yum' package itself).

ok.  It had me worried there for a bit.  This means that you have to check 
for .rpmnew files, but that is livable.
Is there any utility to notify root or somewhere else of the appearance of 
.rpmnew files?  I could see a nightly cron that finds them and emails the 
result to root..