Software Management call for RFEs

Jan Zelený jzeleny at redhat.com
Thu May 23 13:13:30 UTC 2013


On 23. 5. 2013 at 13:52:39, Simone Caronni wrote:
> On 23 May 2013 13:47, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> > May I ask what is the use case for this? I'm not sure why would you need
> > to
> > deal with individual files instead of the entire packages.
> 
> Maybe to reinstall one default config file out of a package that contains
> some? I found it useful.
> Example:
> 
> I fiddle around with a new Nagios installation, then something stops
> working. I'm pretty sure it is some modifications in /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> but I cannot track it down.
> As an example I could do:
> 
> mv /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg.mine
> yum reinstall nagios --onlyfile /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

Thanks for the explanation. I will mark the email and make sure to put the use 
case to the updated list of RFEs.

Thanks
Jan


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