On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:52, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >And more to the point, where third-party RPMs fit into > >the picture. In RedHat-land they are almost always made > >to fit into the vendor-provided scheme, clobbering system > >files if there is a conflict. > > > > > It shouldnt do that. RPM packages are supposed to create a .rpmnew file > if the preexisting configuration files are modifed. The rules governing > such changes are documented in detail in several guides. See > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/RPM. If packages dont honor such > rules then it can be consider a bug with those specific packages rather > than RPM itself. Do file bug reports as appropriate. I'm talking about things that depend on updated/modified versions of stock libraries or other tools like you find in some third-party repositories. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
