updates killing my files

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 15:37:46 CEST 2007


On 4/18/07, Alessandro del Gallo <delgallo at pic.es> wrote:
> Hello, I think we have a poblem with Red Hat rpm's.
> When an update occurs, rpm erases all the files I modofied
> in /usr/share/nagios/ without making a backup.

This is how the rpm is built. The files in /etc/ are listed as config
files with the %noreplace option, so they get left alone. The files in
/usr/share/ get no such protection. While I would like to see the
nuvola theme made the default, I understand this behavior of rpm, and
just work around it.




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