> Jeff Larsen wrote:
> > We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party
> > application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or
> > warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a
> > few minutes when the application failed to start.
> >
> > Is this a python issue, an upstream issue or a CentOS issue? Can
> > something be done about it going forward?
>
> Only files that are designed to be modified (like config files in /etc/
> normally) are protected from updates.
>
> The system does not look for other files as being updated and save them.
>
> If that file is one that SHOULD be modified by customers, then filing a
> bug upstream can get them to mark it as a config(no-replace) file ...
> but I doubt this file is one that they will change.
Being new to python, I didn't know enough to ignore the vendor's
advice. I now have it properly configured with a file
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/zope.pth. I also shot off an email to
the vendor on the right way to do it.
Jeff
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