On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:00:57AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > /bin/ls is part of the coreutils package as a fixed, unchangeable > component. "Fixed" with regard to sysadmin's actions. You're not > supposed to mangle /bin/ls or similar parts of the package, you are > supposed to let RPM deal with that. And you're not supposed to run chkconfig --del either. (Just 'cause you *can* doesn't mean you *should*.) > The symlinks in /etc/rc*.d however, those are a different story. You are > allowed to make changes. They're similar to config files. Sure. Maybe /bin/ls is bad example, so let's pick another: If I delete /etc/prelink.conf, I'd expect it to come back when I did an upgrade. > To let RPM overrule the sysadmin's decisions w.r.t. those symlinks is > like letting RPM blindly overwrite config files during "rpm -U" and not > save backups of the old files. And, if I modify /etc/prelink.conf, I *do* get a backup. In fact, I get an .rpmnew file. That's the proper behavior. Likewise, if I properly use chkconfig off instead of deleting the configuration information completely, my configuration is preserved. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 81 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
