Beware - Yum 3.5 to 3.6 upgrade replaces named.conf

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Craig White wrote:

>>caching-nameserver is just the config files ... it requires bind to be
>>installed too
>>    
>>
>----
>given the fact that the result of an update breaks working
>configurations and avoiding that situation is one of the targets of the
>upstream provider, the upstream provider probably should invest a little
>bit of time/energy to ensure that this is unlikely to occur.
>
>Given there are idiot admins like me who rarely miss an opportunity to
>step on their d*cks...(I think I only got caught on this once but never
>knew until now, why that was the case).
>  
>

Heh...that's OK.  I only discovered this by accident as well.  And it 
was only very recently...maybe 6-9 months ago...after having used RH 
Linux since version 4-ish.

Cheers,