preventing known-damaging third-party to fedora/epel package upgrade?

[Paul Wouters]

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".

Paul