SSH on Fedora 16

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Fri Dec 23 22:21:17 UTC 2011


On 12/23/2011 02:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> "yum reinstall" doe snot exactly the same
> than remove/install which is good if you want to reinstall a
> package because something ha messed up binary files
>

Thank you; that's what I wanted to find out.

> but it handles config files totally different
> "yum reinstall" will never touch them and not
> create rpmnew/rpmsave files!

You mean that it won't replace a completely missing config file?  That's 
one thing I'd expect it to check for.


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