On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 January 2005, at 17:19:03 (+0000),
> Lance Davis wrote:
>
> > I agree totally - but disagree that an 'upgrade' should trash files
> > that you have edited, and remove your configuration just because you
> > have something installed that you shouldnt.
>
> Nobody's files got "trashed." They were renamed for backup purposes.
>
> Think about it: If you're running a cache-only nameserver, there's
> nothing you could or should reasonably do to named.conf or any of the
> /var/named/* files. RedHat wants to make sure that the old-and-busted
> cache data is replaced by the new-hotness cache data, so they backup
> your old stuff and install their new stuff. This is a perfectly sane,
> reasonable, and expected course of action.
Yes - but the people who have edited the files are not running cache-only
nameservers - they have mistakenly got that rpm installed and then edited
their stuff.
If they were running cache-only nameservers then there would not be a
problem.
Lance
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