2005/12/1, Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei.knapstad@xxxxxxxxx>: > > - Your configurations may become invalid (both systemwide in /etc and > per user dotfiles/directories). > > Systemwide configurations that are unchanged should probably just be > replaced by newer ones _if they are unchanged_, but I think the > current procedure just installs them as .rpmnew? Would it be possible > to rename the old ones as .rpmold.fc3 if this is the case? > Configurations that are changed by the user should of course not be > replaced, but I think they should be logged to a separate file in the > root account so that it's possible to review these for the user and > check that they're still valid. All this would require sha1 sums of > configuration files from old rpm's so I guess it's hard to implement. > > The per-user configuration stuff is harder to deal with. I've had > sufficient trouble with this in the past to generally just get rid of > most (if not all) of my user configuration stuff, and just keep my > documents from /home. No good ideas here really... > If yum/rpm would send a detailed mail to all users indicate that what configurations are saved to .rpmold, .rpmnew, etc. and what are replaced then I could believe in yum/rpm more. Currently only packages list are mailed to root account, so I have to run yum in gnome-terminal and double or triple the screen cache in order to find these information. I believe that package management should not be interactive like debian, but still need to present these information to users. -- bbbush ^_^ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
