Software Management call for RFEs

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/24/2013 09:26 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le vendredi 24 mai 2013 à 07:08 +0200, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
>> On 05/23/2013 06:05 PM, Simone Caronni wrote:
>>> On 23 May 2013 17:38, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org
>>> <mailto:james at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 13:52 +0200, Simone Caronni wrote:
>>>       > mv /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg.mine
>>>       > yum reinstall nagios --onlyfile /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>>>
>>>        How is this functionally different from "yum reinstall nagios" ?
>>>        Yes, yum/rpm will currently replace files with identical copies but
>>>      functionally the extra copies are "just wasting reinstall time".
>>>
>>>
>>> By doing "yum reinstall nagios" I don't have the the default config
>>> files (i.e. nagios.cfg.rpmnew is not created). This happens only on
>>> upgrades.
>>
>> yum remove <pkg>
>> yum install <pkg>
>>
>> should do what you want (backups of modified config files).
>
> But that's unfortunately not always convenient if you need to remove
> dependent packages for "yum remove" ?
> I guess yum-shell may help in that case ?

c.f. what I wrote in 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-May/183321.html

This works in most cases (I haven't seen it fails in any real world 
case, it's imaginable it fails in some stateful packages).

Ralf