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Joep Rottinghuis commented on HADOOP-7387:
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If I read the rpm_config page you referred to correctly, that specifies the
behavior when a package is updated, not what happens if it is uninstalled.
I'd say if a config file has been unchanged from the original installation then
uninstall should actually delete the config file (you can always get it back by
re-installing the package again).
If a config file has been modified and differs from the version in the pacakge,
it could be renamed to .rpmsave.
I think it is important that uninstalling packages leaves the system as close
as possible to the state it was in before the package was installed in the
first place.
When you want to upgrade from one version to the next you really do not want
any artifacts to linger around and mess up things in an unexpected way.
Specifically:
Install version A, uninstall version A, install version B
should be the same as:
Install version B
> Change rpm to ignore configuration files when uninstalling
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> Key: HADOOP-7387
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7387
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Environment: Java 6, RHEL 5.5
> Reporter: Eric Yang
> Assignee: Eric Yang
> Priority: Minor
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> When uninstalling RPM files, the config files are renamed from core-site.xml
> to core-site.xml.rpmsave. It would be nice if config file does not get
> renamed.
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