Disk defragmenter in Linux

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Dec 28 23:52:24 UTC 2005


Hi

>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.


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Rahul 

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