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 <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 ?

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

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