On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 18:57 -0700, Matthew Braithwaite wrote: > I have an RPM of /etc/sudoers which I'd like to install with yum. > Unfortunately, /etc/sudoers is also claimed by RedHat's sudo RPM, so > the only way I've been able to install my RPM so far is with "rpm > --replacefiles". > > An option to use --replacefiles has been added to OpenDarwin's fork of > yum, but so far as I can tell this feature is not available in the > canonical yum. forks for silly reasons, how nice. > Any advice? If there's a way to fix the spec file of my /etc/sudoers > RPM so that --replacefiles isn't required, that'd be great, but I > haven't been able to figure out how to do this. don't have a different package try to own a package than the package that owns it. if sudo owns /etc/sudoers and you want to modify /etc/sudoers from the default then replace the sudo package with the package you'd rather have. -sv
