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 <ja...@fedoraproject.org > > <mailto:ja...@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 ? -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel