updates killing my files

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jim Perrin wrote:

> 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.

The easy workaround for me is:
  - copy index.html to index.html.SHIPPED
  - edit index.html to my liking
  - create a diff file (diff -u index.html.SHIPPED index.html > index.html.diff)

Then after an package update I can apply the patch once again.

Done this ever sinds 2.0b(something) untill present day 2.9

Hugo.

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