On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 13:52 +0200, Simone Caronni wrote: > On 23 May 2013 13:47, Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > May I ask what is the use case for this? I'm not sure why would you need to > > deal with individual files instead of the entire packages. > > > Maybe to reinstall one default config file out of a package that contains > some? I found it useful. > Example: > > I fiddle around with a new Nagios installation, then something stops > working. I'm pretty sure it is some modifications in /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg > but I cannot track it down. > As an example I could do: > > mv /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg.mine > yum reinstall nagios --onlyfile /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg How is this functionally different from "yum reinstall nagios" ? Yes, yum/rpm will currently replace files with identical copies but functionally the extra copies are "just wasting reinstall time". -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
