On 07/12/2012 11:41 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On 07/12/2012 11:38 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > >> So, this makes me wonder. Is there a good reason rpm doesn't check the new >> package and the old package for having the same file during an upgrade, and >> simply use the flags on the incoming package if they're both present? > > What if the incoming package accidentally remove the "noreplace"? You > wouldn't want to wipe out the existing configs in that case either. > >> Is it just that we've never done it that way? > > I think usually these cases fall under "unsupported".
I think the point is that if the newer package flags trump the old and broken old package, you can fix things a bit more sanely than the current state of affairs where the old package is missing flags. ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
